987117 - Respect loadInBackground preference and consolidate it behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 469456

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Vova Olar]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.154 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Options->Tabs, deactivate "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediatelly".
2. Make any of following actions:
- middle click any item in history menu
- type some text in awesome bar and middle click "Go" arrow
- type some text in search box and middle click "Search"
- open Library, select multiple items and middle click "Open All in tabs"
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Actual results:

Tab(s) opens in foreground


Expected results:

Tab(s) should open in background

Comment 1

[Vova Olar]

This bug is partly presented in 530383, 469456.
Can anyone link them?

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

> 1. Open Options->Tabs, deactivate "When I open a link in a new tab, switch
> to it immediatelly".
> 2. Make any of following actions:
> - middle click any item in history menu
> - type some text in awesome bar and middle click "Go" arrow
> - open Library, select multiple items and middle click "Open All in tabs"

These are all covered by bug 469456.

> - type some text in search box and middle click "Search"

Bug 765619.

This bug doesn't seem to serve any additional purpose.