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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:14 AM, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In Firefox when I control/left click on a link to open in a new tab I can > set it to display immediately using preferences. The default is to stay on > the original tab but why you would click on a link to display in a new tab > and not want to immediately look at the new tab baffles me. It depends on the task. Consider reading an article: you might come across links that look interesting. If you follow them there & then, you lose the thread of the article you were reading. If you read on past and try to remember to come back to those links at the end, it's easy to forget what you were intending, or struggle to find them again. So opening a link in a new tab but not giving it focus is a way to relieve yourself of the cognitive burden of remembering the interesting side links, without losing the context of what you are reading. That may not fit your personal browsing practice, which is fine, but I think it's not *so* hard to see why it's a plausible default. I do agree that it's odd that the Chrome devs don't allow it to be overridden in the prefs though. > But that is what > happens in Chrome and Vivaldi and probably others, and I can't find a way to > set the new tab to open immediately in these 2 browsers. Is it just me? click link - show in current tab ctl-click - show in new background tab shift-click - show in new window with focus ctl-shift-click - show in new foreground tab (i.e. with focus) Ian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq