[Camino] Tabs vs windows - open in background

[Dan Stillman]

On 6/8/07 6:18 AM, Smokey Ardisson wrote:
> How about just when you open a new window?  Or perhaps use tab 
> jumpback to your advantage instead of using windows, and load new 
> tabs for "I want to queue this" in the background and a new tab for 
> "I want to see this right now" in the foreground, upon closing which 
> will send you right back to the tab you were on when spawning the 
> queued/now tabs?
>   

These suggestions are all well and good, but they don't change the 
original request or fix the problem that, as Stuart said on the bug, the 
browser.tabs.loadInBackground pref is being abused (as is the pref pane 
itself). While tab jumpback is sometimes sufficient, there are times 
when you simply want to open a new window--say, to put a page on another 
monitor--and holding down shift every time to put it in the front gets 
tedious quickly. (It also impedes mouse-only browsing.)

Would the drivers be amenable to having browser.tabs.loadInBackground 
control only tabs, as it should, and having new window behavior 
controlled by a separate, possibly hidden pref (that defaulted to 
showing new windows in the front, like all other browsers)? I'd be happy 
to provide such a patch, as I imagine would Michael.

- Dan