Closed Bug 273333 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

New tabs are in background when first opened.

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

()

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: d.paynter, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When opening a new tab using the right mouse key, the tab opens in the background.
This is a frustration, since the user invokes a command specifying a new tab,
and then has to search for the tab that just opened.

The new tab should be in the foreground, appearing when the command is first issued.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on any link in any web page
2.select open as a new tab
3.
Actual Results:  
the new tab will open in the background

Expected Results:  
the new tab should have opened as the foreground
Tools - Options - Advanced - Tabbed browsing - check "select new tabs opened
from links"

"The UI for new tabs in the foreground is too hidden and incomprehensible" would
be a valid bug (though probably a duplicate), but you would have to come up with
a better phrase, which is really hard to do.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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