Comment 4 for bug 677216

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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote : Re: [Bug 677216] Re: [windowmanagement] activating a link not switching to proper workspace

Moving the user to the workspace where the browser is would be desirable.

On Nov 25, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Florian Boucault <email address hidden> wrote:

> The default behaviour for chromium and firefox is to open a new tab in an existing browser window. If that window is on a different workspace then what you described happens. I am unsure if this is a good or bad thing from a user perspective. Two possible fixes could be implemented:
> - either moving the browser window to the current workspace
> - or moving the user to the workspace where the browser window is
>
> I could not find any bug report in launchpad related to this.
>
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> [windowmanagement] activating a link not switching to proper workspace
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677216
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