273333 - New tabs are in background when first opened.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[d.paynter]

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

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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.