I believe you can set your firefox to open new tabs in the background. If you programatically open a new tab it might open it in the background. If anything it might be worth trying.
Perchik
2009-01-31 15:44:48
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The only thing I can find would be disabling "when I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" under "tabs" in the ff preferences. I already tried that and it doesn't have any effect on that.
Kim
2009-01-31 16:08:22
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You found the new tab parameter, so you're just missing the focus thing.
That ought to be window manager-dependent I think. Isn't something firefox itself is responsible for. If there's a pointy clicky tool to tune the way metacity does that then I'm unaware of it.
JosefAssad
2009-01-31 18:56:14
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If you set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true in about:config then -new-tab will open tabs in the background and not focus the window. This does more than you (or I) want but perhaps it is a suitable work-around for you?
Allan Wind
2009-02-01 06:44:10