Middleclick on boomark openes the new tab in the background

[Christoph Langner]

Epiphany handels opening bookmarks in new tabs different than Firefox. Usually, when you open a bookmark in a new tab via a click on the mousewheel, a new active tab gets opened, with the bookmark as content. Epiphany instead opens links from my bookmarks in the background.

This is quite inconvenient. When I browse the web, it's nice to open links you might find interesting in new tabs in the background. This way you browse e.g. through a news page and open article after article in the background. After browsing the mainpage you read the articles inside the tab. But when i open a page from my bookmarks I want it active now. I don't want to look through my list if open tabs to find it.

Firefox uses two "about:config" keys to define the way bookmarks/links are opened.

browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground = false
browser.tabs.loadInBackground = true

These keys exist also in Epiphany with the same values. But Epiphany ignores the "browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground" key.

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

I forgot to mention the version i'm using. Uptodate Gutsy Gibbon with

$ dpkg -l epiphany-browser
ii epiphany-brows 2.20.1-0ubuntu Intuitive GNOME web browser

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report.

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

Still valid for Intrepid Ibex...

[Ben Asselstine (benasselstine-deactivatedaccount)]

Here's a patch that fixes this bug in epiphany on Intrepid.

Here's a video that demonstrates the utility of fixing this bug with this patch:
http://www.superunprivileged.org/ephy-middle-click-bookmark.ogv

Please apply this patch and push upstream!

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

I've rejected this patch for now. Upstream has another patch, but its currently stuck at upstream level.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Upstream was marked a duplicate