[Camino] Tabs vs windows - open in background

[Dan Stillman]

On 6/7/07 1:14 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
> So for me and a lot of people, new windows are "I want to see this  
> now", and tabs are "I want to queue this". Problem is, unlike  
> Firefox, Camino can't make new windows open in front /and/ tabs open  
> in back. That is, if new windows from links open in front, new tabs  
> from links always steal focus. Firefox has a setting that allows for  
> flexibility here, but will Camino ever get it?
>
> Note that I am not talking about browser.tabs.forceHide, because that  
> seems to affect windows in Camino. See Firefox's "When I open a link  
> in a new tab, switch to it immediately" setting.
>   

I know this has been WONTFIXed 
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241100), but I really have 
to second this request. As Michael mentions, tabs and windows have 
different uses to many people, so using the same pref doesn't make much 
sense. Personally I'd be fine if windows always opened in the 
foreground, which is how every other browser I've ever used works 
(except for Opera, which gives you both options in the context menu), 
but at the very least there should be a separate pref for this 
fundamental UI behavior. I'm not sure how a separate pref would be 
"confusing for most users" (as Samuel Sidler suggested on the bug), 
since it'd be pretty basic language, but even if it wasn't going to be 
exposed, could there at least be a hidden pref? There are just a few 
lines in BrowserWindowController.mm that control this.

As it stands, I compile my own version of Camino just to change this 
behavior.