Comment 8 for bug 546969

There are clearly two opposing camps on this, the 546969'ers who DO want FF to take focus, and the 272171'ers who don't, so clearly this needs to be a preference somewhere. I'm one who DOES want FF to take focus, but alas, it is not, on a brand new install of 10.04 and FF 3.6.8.

I tried changing Preferences > Preferred Applications > Internet > Web Browser from "Open link with web browser default" to "Open link in new tab", and nothing changed. Then I rebooted, reopened FF, reopened Evolution, and the FIRST time I clicked a link in Evolution, it opened a new tab in FF and FF focused. But after that first time it's back to the old non-focusing behavior on all subsequent links (I'm guessing this is what confused edemuelle into reporting success too soon).

In bug 272171 they speak of browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground, but this is already false for me, and besides this only defines whether the new tab should be focused within FF, not whether FF should be focused in general.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/tabs_config.htm

The Compiz workaround does not work for me as I do not use Compiz (and this isn't a good reason to start).

edemuelle suggested checking "the window manager settings" -- I assume referring to gconf-editor as well. I've looked all through it and found nothing.

I'm at a loss!