[Users] Opening link in Firefox

[Dan Arico]

> >> Yes, in Firefox Preferences the box is checked for "When I open a
> >> link in a new tab, switch to it immediately." And this is what
> >> happens when I click on a link in a Firefox page. 
> >
> >But it does not seem to happen for me even when i call firefox
> >-new-tab from a commandline. So this should be a firefox bug.
> 
> Hmm. 
> 
> When I started this thread on January 11 I had Firefox 10.0.2 on the
> Fedora laptop. Claws Mail would open the link in a new tab, but not
> bring up the window. 
> 
> Today on my desktop computer with Lucid and Firefox 10.0.2, Sylpheed
> 3.0.2 does open the tab and bring up the Firefox window.
> 
> This suggests that it is not in Firefox.
> 
> However, Fedora and Ubuntu are quite different. Perhaps there are
> system settings somewhere that are causing the problem, although I
> don't have a clue where to start looking.
> 
> Are there other users here with Fedora? Does clicking on a link bring
> up the Firefox window as well as loading the tab? How about users of
> other distros?

I use OpenSUSE 12.1 and KDE. I'm having no problems at all, except that
firefox opens a window behind the claws window and I have to shift
focus.

My setting are configured in the desktop settings.

Dan Arico

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