FireyFoxed

[jsbowden]

I rebuilt the laptop over the weekend, and now Firefox is behaving differently than I want or expect, and it's pissing me off. When I chord < CTRL > < L-CLICK > on a link, I want it to open in a new tab, which happens as expected, but goddamnit, I DON'T fucking want to be switched to that new tab. I want it loading and waiting in the background until I have time for it. There is nowhere in preferences that I can find to change this, and it's only Windows that's doing this to me. Mac OS X, Irix, and FreeBSD all behave exactly as expected, and I'm running the latest Firefox on all of them. What the fuck, over?

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The TabBrowserPreferences extension allows you to explicitly specify these behaviours. I have no clue about exactly why it's doing that, though - probably an option hidden somewhere deep in about:config - check browser.tabs.loadInBackground and make sure that's set to True.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Ah, sanity has been restored.

Not only does about:config show you the settings, but you can double click on it and it changes. That is nifty.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I are the jenius.

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

One reason I still use Mozilla instead of Firefox is that options like this are in the preferences menu instead of being hidden. about:config is nice, but if you don't know what the option is called, it doesn't help too much.