Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 09:34 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I did a search on this, and found this link, > https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/links-open-background-firefox-chrome/ > Warning, it is old, but the setting still exists.  It describes such > links as diverted links, and there is a setting in t

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 09:34 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I did a search on this, and found this link, > https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/links-open-background-firefox-chrome/ > Warning, it is old, but the setting still exists.  It describes such > links as diverted links, and there is a setting in t

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 11:00 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > instead I just get a notification about Firefox > opening a tab.  That's exactly how it worked for me before I upgraded to F38, notification and everything, and I actually much preferred that behavior. > Except, now I just tested it on this

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:14:55AM +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the focus would stay on whatever window I clicked the link in. This meant that if I wanted to open mul

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:10:47 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > stan: > > I think this is a setting in the firefox settings.  > > edit -> settings -> General > > and then look at the tabs section. > > You probably have this setting selected; > > When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switc

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-20 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Do tell... "what's multi-click"? I use Mate, I haven't found anything >> that I could twiddle with to control this behaviour. wwp: > Well, I meant when you need to click on several links that will open > another app (or the opposite, need to open several links in firefox, by > clicking s

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread wwp
Hello Tim, On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:51:45 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, wwp wrote: > > One could also set firefox's window (or the other target app) to be > > always on top or to be in another focus mode, handled by the window > > manager - at least when being i

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 20:51 +0200, wwp wrote: > One could also set firefox's window (or the other target app) to be > always on top or to be in another focus mode, handled by the window > manager - at least when being in mode "multi-click", that might help. > Mate users can do that easily, devilspi

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread wwp
Hello, On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:00:24 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2023-04-19 10:40, Tim via users wrote: > > Matti Pulkkinen: > >>> If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat > >>> window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the > >>> focus would sta

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2023-04-19 10:40, Tim via users wrote: Matti Pulkkinen: If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the focus would stay on whatever window I clicked the link in. This meant that if I wanted to open multiple

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread Tim via users
Matti Pulkkinen: >> If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat >> window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the >> focus would stay on whatever window I clicked the link in. This meant >> that if I wanted to open multiple links, I could just click the

Re: Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:14:55 +0300 Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat > window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the > focus would stay on whatever window I clicked the link in. This meant > that if I wanted to open mu

Don't focus Firefox when clicking a link

2023-04-19 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
If I clicked a link in Fedora 37 in, say, my email client or a chat window, it wouldn't immediately focus the Firefox window, and the focus would stay on whatever window I clicked the link in. This meant that if I wanted to open multiple links, I could just click them all in quick succession withou