Opening gmail links in new tabs

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Mon Aug 10 14:52:39 CEST 2015


* Abraham Baker <z1693060 at students.niu.edu> [2015-08-10 07:37:15 -0500]:
> When I middle-click on a link in any email I get through gmail, the link
> opens in a new tab and focuses that tab even though I thought I set the
> browser to open middle-clicked links in a new background tab (don't focus
> it yet).
> 
> This affects me the most when I return to an email I've sent that has many
> links and I try to use ;r on them (rapid-mode open in background tabs),
> since opening one this way switches to that tab immediately.
> 
> Is there a setting I forgot to change (maybe site-specific quirks?), or is
> this just a gmail bug?

I can reproduce it - not sure what's going on, but I opened [1] and
will look into it later.

Setting tabs -> background-tabs should be enough, but I guess GMail
does some javascript magic or so.

[1] https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/865

Florian

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