Open link w/o bringing firefox to the foreground
Scott Newton
scottn at quantumchaos451.co.nz
Sun Apr 20 21:46:48 BST 2025
Out of interest do you have browser.tabs.load_Diverted_InBackground set to true as
well?
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Regards
Scott Newton
On Monday, 21 April 2025 7:58:06 am New Zealand Standard Time Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 April 2025 19:47:49 CEST Garry T. Williams wrote:
> > On Sunday, 20 April 2025 11:56:11 EDT Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > I upgraded to Debian trixie and am now using kmail 6.3.3 (24.12.3),
> > > before I was using 22.12.3. I noticed if I now click on an URL, the
> > > link brings firefox to the foreground even if it is on a different
> > > virtual desktop. Is there a way to open URLs in the background?
> >
> > Don't you just love it when the developers arbitrarily decide without
> > notice that a feature of the UI should be changed? I have the same
> > problem in Fedora (24.12.3, too).
> >
> > This change happened over a year ago when someone broke links in
> > kmail. I reported the broken links problem and they eventually fixed
> > it. (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482568) My original bug
> > report also mentioned your problem, but they closed it as a duplicate.
> >
> > This message reminded me that the developer claimed this was a new
> > issue and should have a new bug report it. I just opened a bug report
> > for this behavior.
> >
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503074
>
> Thanks Garry for following up and opening the bug report.
>
> I subscribed, let's see how it goes. Probably the Debian users have to live
> with it for many months, since Debian 13 is close to the release and I don't
> think that there will be a 24.12.4 release.
>
> Thanks again
> Rainer
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