[MlMt] Open Links in Background?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 27 Jan 2023, at 21:04, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:

> On Fri 2023-01-27 06:36 PM MST -0700, <mailmate at not-pc.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Jan 2023, at 11:07, Michael Nietzold wrote:
>>
>>> ## Summary
>>>
>>> Is there a way to open links in background? MailMate should stay 
>>> activated
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I think all of the latter four are based on Chromium, which may be why 
> they work similarly in this regard, dunno.
>
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.)

         —Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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