Open-link misbehavior

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 21:35 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 18:26 -0800, Ian Burrell wrote:
> > This is controlled by a Firefox preference and affects opening any
> > external link.  The default is "a new tab in the most recent window". 
> > The other options are in "a new window", or in "the most recent
> > tab/window".
> 
> I know this, however this does not work correctly in a multi-desktop
> setup without some cooperation between Firefox and Metacity. This
> is clearly (at least at this point) a distro issue, simply because
> the Mozilla people can't do anything about it given the large variation
> out there in the field (tens of WMs, etc).

This is non distribution specific window manager issue. If it requires a
common specification, then you can post to
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/. If it's metacity specific,
you can use http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Rahul