[Bug 1009816] Re: Firefox comes to front when opening link via external program.

[Simon Reinhardt]

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.

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