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If I search for an page visited I sometimes need to check several similar history entries. Default of Firefox is, that every time I right-click and select open in new tab, the new tab opens and the history-window disapears. For bookmarks I found out, that you can tweak in about:config the browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground and browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs to true, so that firefox opens bookmarks in a new tab and in the background.

I thought I found the same for my history problem with browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground However, now it opens any "diverted" new tab in a background tab, but I only want it for new tabs out of the history window and not e.g. when clicking on a link in a pdf. Then I want the clicked link to pop up directly.

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I have "browser.search.context.loadinbackground" set to true on my Firefox (version 86.0b7). In the Library->History menu, as well as the History sidebar, I can Middle-Click to have the URL open in the background.

For completeness, I also have these set to "true":

browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
browser.tabs.loadInBackground
browser.search.openintab
browser.urlbar.openintab
browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick
browser.urlbar.openintab
middlemouse.openNewWindow

Hope that helps you. Regards, Andi

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  • you are my todays hero. setting browser.search.context.loadinbackground to true does indeed work as intended. (open tabs via history in the background, but tabs from external programms in the front)!
    – Josomeister
    Feb 10, 2021 at 13:19
  • Glad to be of service :-)
    – andibing
    Feb 12, 2021 at 12:34
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control + shift + left mouse click opens in background tab for me

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