308606 - tab not loading in background

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[davesweeps]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1

In preferences I have checked "Load in the background" for New windows and tabs.
And in Link from other applications I have "Opens in a new tab in the frontmost
window" This used to open the link from the other app in a new tab without
selecting that new tab. Now it opens the new link in a new tab and selects it
too even though "load in background" is checked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In prefs: check "Load in the background" for New windows and tabs
2. In prefs: Link from other applications I have "Opens in a new tab in the
frontmost window"
3. Click a link from another application.

Actual Results:  
opens link in new tab and selects said tab.

Expected Results:  
opens link in new tab but loads it in the background w/o selecting it.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This behavior was changed for bug 167245.

Simon, here come your objections to fixing that.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

See bug 167245 for the rationale.

Comment 3

[davesweeps]

I don't think 1.0 should be released with this obvious logical problem exposed
in the tabs prefences. It doesn't make sense to ask a user how they want new
tabs handled, then when they chose "open new tab" for links requested from an
external application to not load it as they just requested. I'm sure there are
many users like myself who have an RSS reader like NetNewsWireLite that read one
story and click many others to load in the background and then systematically
read said background-loaded web pages.

So:

From the rationale of bug 167245: "the least likely
thing that is relevant to you is the page that was last front-most on the browser."

Not really.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

fwiw, i believe ben is changing firefox to behave as we do in this situation.