331666 - middle clicking bookmark - bookmark get shown as your main viewing tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[freedomxx]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

this happened after i changed my profile.
I need to make profile since my previous (default) profile couldn't make any bookmarks unless i changed the place i saved since i have two Bookmark and Bookmark toolbar folder but i fixed those but then the middle clicking a link in the bookmark tool bar, my viewing page automatically skips to my tab that is currently being opened and that never happened before

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.save links onto bookmarks toolbar
2.open the saved links by middle clicking them (opening them in a new tab)
3.

Actual Results:  
viewing page automatically skips to new tab that is being creating

Expected Results:  
viewing page stays on same but new tabs open according to bookmark selected

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

If you want bookmarks to open in the background you need to set browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

Comment 3

[Mikael Vidstedt]

I'm sorry, but I can't really see that there's a difference between a "normal link" and a Toolbar Bookmark. To me they are both just links. It does not make sense to me to treat them differently. Even though this can be fixed using the not-so-userfriendly way described above, I beg you to at least reconsider the behaviour.

Comment 9

[vincefvanwijk]

(In reply to Mikael Vidstedt from comment #3)

I'm sorry, but I can't really see that there's a difference between a
"normal link" and a Toolbar Bookmark. To me they are both just links. It
does not make sense to me to treat them differently. Even though this can be
fixed using the not-so-userfriendly way described above, I beg you to at
least reconsider the behaviour.

I agree with this, and don't understand why bookmark links are somehow special.
But if it's really such a big problem to include them in the same option, can an indented option at least be added to the General > Tabs setting? For example something like "Exclude bookmarks".