366910 - opening a new tab from bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295098

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

In the preferences under tabs there are four checkboxes the last box is "when I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" is NOT selected.  This works fine on links embedded in a web page, but when opening a link from the bookmarks or live book marks Firefox automatically switches to the newly opened tab.  Whether this is a "bug" is probably debatable, but from my perspective it is at least an annoyance. 

This also happens on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows:U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;rv:1.8.1.1)Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Ensure that the preferences are set as described in the Details so that links opened in a new tab check box is not selected.
2.  middle click, or right click and select open in new tab to any item in your bookmarks or live bookmarks.

Actual Results:  
new tab is opened and focus is automatically switched to the newly opened tab. 

Expected Results:  
based on the preferences settings as described above, the results I would expect is that the focus would remain on the current tab you are viewing.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This works fine for me. Can you test in firefox's safe mode: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

Comment 2

[Dan]

I started Firefox in safe mode and the problem still exists, maybe I didn't describe the problem well enough.  

Dave, 
  you commented that it works fine for you?  do you mean that when you open a bookmark in a new tab, that the current tab, (not the new one you are opening), remains the tab with the focus?

Like I said, some people may not consider this a "bug" per say but it is an annoyance to me as I would expect that opening a link, whether it be from your bookmarks or from within a new web page would result in the same behavior which is not the case here.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I mean that when I middle click a bookmark it doesn't focus a new tab.

Comment 4

[Dan]

well this happens on both windows and Linux platforms for me.  personally I like to be able to open many tabs to view at a later time and when I open a live bookmark especially it's annoying that the focus is brought to that page instead of the current page I am viewing.  not only that but it is inconsistant with the preferences settings that are displayed.  

what version are you currently running? this may have been fixed/changed since 2.0.0.1, just a thought.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Have you testing in Firefox's safe mode as I asked?

Comment 6

[Dan]

As I stated in comment #2 I did on both Linux and windows platforms with no different results, as it this behavior exists on two different platforms both running normally and in -safe-mode.

Comment 8

[Dan]

Thanks Phil, in my search I couldn't find anything similar but lookiing through bug 295098 I agree that this is definately a duplicate of that bug.