We're calling on all EU-based Mozillians with iOS or iPadOS devices to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens. Join the effort to hold Big Tech to account!

This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

How to stop automatically switch tabs when linking a link.

spleecheckre
spleecheckre
more options

On my new desktop I want to enable the feature that does the following.

I want to be able to view a webpage and then ctrl click or M3 click a link and I want the new link to open in a new tab but REMAIN on the current webpage.

I have unticked >When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately under settings already.

browser.tabs.loadInBackground under about:config is set to True.

On my new desktop I want to enable the feature that does the following. I want to be able to view a webpage and then ctrl click or M3 click a link and I want the new link to open in a new tab but REMAIN on the current webpage. I have unticked >When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately under settings already. browser.tabs.loadInBackground under about:config is set to True.

All Replies (1)

spleecheckre
spleecheckre Question owner
more options

I don't know to edit my original post. What I meant to say is I want to be able to ctrl click or M3 click a bookmark, without it changing me to the new tab. I want to stay on the current tab.