249549 - Tabs opened from bookmarks don't respect the open in background setting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 175629

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tommy Becker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Middle clicking bookmarks to open them in a new tab always loads that tab in the
foreground, even if the "Select new tabs opened from links" is unchecked.  This
happens when choosing a bookmark from the menu, the bookmark toolbar, or the
sidebar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make sure "Select new tabs opened from links" is unchecked.
2.  Middle click a bookmark.
3.

Actual Results:  
The resulting tab is opened in the foreground

Expected Results:  
The "Select new tabs opened from links" setting should be respected.

Comment 1

[Richard Corbin]

I also experience.

Status -> NEW

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

A bookmark is not a link.  There's a hidden pref to change the default behaviour
called browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground, which if set to true opens these
links in the background.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175629 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change