281871 - Opening a New Tab Should *Display* New Tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[James B. Higgs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

When I right-click on a link and select "Open Link in New Tab", the new tab
should be displayed instead of being "behind" the current tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a link
2. Select "Open Link in New Tab"


Actual Results:  
New tab opens, but is not made the active tab.

Expected Results:  
THe new tab should be the one that is displayed.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

We have already a pref for this. Please check it and give feedback.

Did you make sure ...

for 1.7.x:

"Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Tabbed Browsing | Tab Display:
Load links in the background" is UNchecked?

for 1.8a/1.8b: 

"Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Tabbed Browsing | Tab Display:
Select new tabs opened from links" is checked?

(Both mean the same)

Comment 2

[Bamm Gabriana]

I think he wants to change the defaults. I disagree with the reporter because I
see the current behavior as a firefox feature: it allows a user to keep on
opening links in a new tab while reading the article or browsing through a list
of search results. After reading the entire article, he can then visit the links
he opened in a new tab by clicking on them one by one. It is much more
inconvenient to have to click back on the tab of, say, Google search results
each time a link is selected to be loaded. Resolving this as wontfix.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

For changing the default that is WONTFIX, but because you can change the
behavior this is WORKSFORME. :-)