Comment 14 for bug 481541

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In , Kakadu+bugzilla (kakadu+bugzilla) wrote :

(In reply to comment #12)
> Most users probably won’t miss the fact that tabs can load in the
> background (majority are coming from window based browsing where you can’t
> really load windows in the background)

And a minority come from other OSes where such functionality may be possible.

I use Linux and TBP, and I always set it up to load internal and external tabs
unfocused. Anything covering up what I'm reading is anathaema.

> Of course this will anger some users (please note: I too like the prefs), but
> this would be a perfect time for an extension to step up and fill the void.
> Remember, it will still be a settable pref in about:config and we can easily add
> it back after Firefox 1.0.

I also happen to be the maintainer of TBP and this is something I've offered for
some time ;-)

> I also want to point out that it’s trivial to add a pref to regulate whether
> links loaded from left click/external applications load in the background.

Why add another pref? Just keep the existing one for left-click links, and add
new meanings to browser.link.external (IIRC). The way I did it with the
equivalent TBP pref, extensions.tabprefs.externalLinkTarget, was:

0 - New window.
1 - New tab in current (recent) window, focused.
2 - Current tab in current (recent) window.
3 - New tab in current (recent) window, unfocused.

Obviously, something like this would need a string thaw after 1.0, but it an be
easily done.