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20080227 Wednesday February 27, 2008

Intrusive Firefox

I'm using latest Ubuntu Hardy and have Firefox 3.0b3 running on one workspace on my GNOME desktop and Thunderbird running in another. When I click on a link in a mail message in Thunderbird, it brings Firefox over to my current desktop. I hate that!

Anybody have any ideas on how to prevent this intrusive behavior? It certainly didn't do this with Firefox 2.0.X.

Update:

Thanks to everybody that responded. If you set "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" to True via "about:config" in Firefox, then the problem goes away.

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( Feb 27 2008, 07:30:36 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [6]

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This is bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/175904 with currently no fix/workaround

Posted by Henk Jan Agteresch on February 27, 2008 at 07:57 AM PST #

By default Firefox opens links by bringing the browser in the foreground.

You can change this behaviour by
1. Go to about:config
2. Set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to True

Posted by Simos on February 27, 2008 at 08:06 AM PST #

I was having the same problem :(
I've just found that web page http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/secret-firefox-trick-prevent-browser.html
You need to set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to TRUE in about:config
Regards,

Posted by Bob on February 27, 2008 at 08:07 AM PST #

Thanks everybody!

Set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to True
does indeed stop the browser getting in my face.

Posted by Rich Burridge on February 27, 2008 at 08:37 AM PST #

It's a Metacity bug.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482354

Posted by Colin Walters on February 27, 2008 at 08:55 AM PST #

Awesome! I have been having the same issue with Firefox 2.0 and Virtual Dimension on Windows XP. So annoying.

Thanks for much for the update. One more happy reader has been made.

Posted by Brandon Bowman on February 27, 2008 at 01:48 PM PST #

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