Followup to mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey On 27/03/2009 07:35, Barry Edwin Gilmour wrote: > luctur wrote: >> If I middle click on a link in a mail message body, the browser window >> stays in background, while if I middle click on that link in the >> headers, the focus is stolen. >> >> It's the only situation in which SM has this behavior. Well, at least >> for what I saw so far. >> >> Regards, >> >> Gianluca >> > Yes, background-browser-links work fine in both Mail and News body, but > not in News-&-Blogs header. > > At the time when the RSS-feed-reader was being inserted into SeaMonkey, > there was a big-problem just-getting the feed-header-link to open in the > browser ( For a while there, it needed a "cut and paste" into the > browser's URL-bar), so it took a big-effort just to manufacture the > active-link within the RSS-reader component's header. I suspect that > this-difficulty is part of the problem, and that the active RSS > header-links in SeaMonkey News and Blogs are special, as header-URLs are > not normally active-links. > > I think this question has moved from user-provided-support into > SeaMonkey-development. > Perhaps you may care to ask the question in > news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey, where the > developers are more likely to consider the question as a > utility/feature-request? > Maybe it should-be a feature-request bug, but it seems unlikely that it > was previously-overlooked, given the utility-benefit of the function, or > that anyone now has spare-time to work on it. > > I still use Newsfox, because of the inconvenient-jumping between > Browser-window and News-&-Blogs-window, simply to-read each > selected-web-site of interest, not to mention being-able to-continue > skimming-through the RSS-precis for additional interesting-articles, > without losing the interesting pages parked in the background-tabs. > Opening several-hundred uninteresting-web-pages within my News-&-Blogs > pane, defeats the task (and wastes my download allocation). > > If the RSS-feeds precis could be skimmed within News-and-Blogs, only > opening chosen-pages-of-interest in the browser-background-tabs without > raising the browser (or alternately, being able to selectively only > download/open the interesting-web-pages within the News-&-Blogs pane?), > then either of these scenarios would be a viable-alternative to using a > fully-developed SeaMonkey-RSS-extension. In the interim, NewsFox works > for me in all versions of SeaMonkey. > Hope this is some help. Barry. > > > >
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