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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">On 27 Jan 2023, at 21:04, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">On Fri 2023-01-27 06:36 PM MST -0700, <mailmate@not-pc.com> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">On 27 Jan 2023, at 11:07, Michael Nietzold wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #BBBBBB; color: #BBBBBB;"><p dir="auto">## Summary</p>
<p dir="auto">Is there a way to open links in background? MailMate should stay activated</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I think this might be browser-dependent. ISTR this working as desired with Safari and Chrome, but when I switched to Brave Browser, it stopped working.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">It seems to be. I just tried changing my default browser to several others to see what would happen. With Safari and Firefox, the link is opened in the background. With Brave, Chrome, Opera, and Vivaldi, the browser comes to the front.</p>
<p dir="auto">I think all of the latter four are based on Chromium, which may be why they work similarly in this regard, dunno.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">It's always worked correctly for me with Firefox and Safari. What I'd like is a visual acknowledgment that the link has been opened, e.g., by blinking the hyperlink once. (My browsers are typically in a different desktop than MailMate.)</p>
<p dir="auto"> —Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb" style="color: #3983C4;">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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