473541 - Opening a link from the Bookmarks Menu in a new tab makes the browser to immediately switch to it, despite this option being unchecked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 469456

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ax]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Even if the option "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" is unchecked, the browser still switches to the new tab if this is opened by a link from the Bookmarks Menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox and go to Tools->Options...->Tabs and uncheck the option "When I open a link in a new tab, swicth to it immediately".
2. Go to View->Sidebar and check Bookmarks.
3. Expand the Bookmarks Menu, right click on a link, and select "Open in a New Tab" (If you don't have any links in the Bookmarks Menu add one such as Google).
Actual Results:  
The browser switched to the newly opened tab.

Expected Results:  
The browser should have opened the new tab while remaining focused on the current tab.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Type about:config in your locationbar and press enter, then double-click on browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground
Does this solve your problem?

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

If you think both options should be controlled by the same preference, this bug is a duplicate of Bug 469456. See also Bug 295098.

Comment 4

[Ax]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Type about:config in your locationbar and press enter, then double-click on
> browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground
> Does this solve your problem?

Thank you and yes, it solves the problem. However I don't think that the regular user should be asked to get his/hers fingers dirty with such advanced settings, not to mention the fact that the regular user has little way of knowing that those settings even exist.