449907 - "When I open a new link, switch to it immediately" doesn't work for Bookmarks Toolbar or context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331666

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Drew Yao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

In the tab preferences, uncheck "When I open a new link, switch to it immediately".  Middle click(or cmd-click) on a link.  It opens in a new tab but does not switch to it.  So far so good.

Middle click on a link in your Bookmarks Toolbar.  It opens in a new tab and switches to it.   Right click on a page and middle click on View background image.  Or right click on an image and middle click on View image.  It opens in a new tab and switches to it.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
In some cases it switches to the new tab in violation of the preference.

Expected Results:  
Always honor the preference and don't switch to the new tab.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080809065644 Minefield/3.1a2pre

When I set the pref browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true, this works fine for me.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

Comment 2

[Drew Yao]

Thanks, that works.  But I would expect the pref in the UI to be equivalent.