I agree that the old behaviour was more likeable. Funnily enough if you set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true the Firefox window doesn't get focused / jump to the foreground anymore and doing this is therefore brought up as a solution to the problem everywhere. However this doesn't actually seem to be what this property is about - what the property seems to be supposed to do is to open that link (in this case from an external program) in a background tab. The fact that this doesn't focus Firefox is just a side-effect.
But opening links from external programs in background tabs is not what I want because that means that if I have loads of tabs open with, say, the first one active, and I then click on a link from an external application and later switch to Firefox, I still have to scroll to the tab I just opened. See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-ppa-bugs/+bug/703806 which seems to have made this workaround possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009816 Title: Firefox comes to front when opening link via external program. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1009816/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
