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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by toast0 on Saturday July 22, 2017 @06:11AM (#14826350)
That's probably the right behavior for those people who are never going to open the tab; but for people like me who have few tabs, open in new tab is a great way to load something I'm actually going to read soon; eg open the article in a new tab, scan the HN comments while the article loads (especially if it's from one of those sites that takes 3 minutes to load)
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by laythea on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:15PM (#14841694)
I think this behavior should be linked with the "Make new tabs have the current focus when opened" option. So if that is not set, and the new tab does not appear, then Firefox should not load. In the devs defense, the inconsistent behaviour between startup and "restore all", and "open in new tab without focus" is easy to miss.

EDIT: I would agree with you in your assessment of the default behavior however, if it were the case, that most people only have a few tabs open normally.

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