New FireFox tabs/windows on wrong workspace?

[John R Cichy]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:52 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
> John R Cichy <john at greengator.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:47 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
> >> It's driving me crazy.  I use 3 or 4 gnome workspaces at a time, but
> >> when I click a link in an email or even just select Tools>Downloads
> >> from within FireFox, the new Tab or existing Download window usually
> >> shows up in some other workspace.  Then I need to go cycling through
> >> workspaces looking for the right information.  I've googled quite a
> >> bit for answers or even complaints about this, but it doesn't seem to
> >> be an issue for anyone else.  Or maybe I'm just looking for the wrong
> >> thing.  Is there some easy fix I'm missing?  I just want the new tab
> >> in the visible workspace, and if there's no window, create one for me.
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> 
> > If you change your preferences to open a new window, rather then a new
> > tab, it should open on the proper workspace, at least it did here just
> > now.
> 
> Well, duh.  I wonder how I missed that one.  I guess I thought "new
> pages" was referring to pages that were newly-opened from the browser.
> 
> Thanks.
No problem, except that when you click on links in the browser, it will
now open a new window, guess we can't have our tabs and eat them too...

John