[desktop-discuss] desktop-discuss Digest, Vol 39, Issue 19

[Rich Burridge]

>> * Firefox 3 does not maintain its native workspace when a link is clicked in another workspace. A great example of this is if I click a link in Thunderbird on Workspace 2, Firefox 3 which is homed on Workspace 4 switches to Workspace 2. This behavior is inconsistent with previous releases.
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>
> This is an annoying new "feature" resulting from the fact that FireFox 
> now supports startup notification.  As a result, Metacity enforces it's 
> policy on FireFox which is to move it to the active workspace.
>
> I despite it as well, but supposedly, the GNOME Metacity developers are 
> working on a solution that allows applications that do need to go to the 
> active workspace (I question that) to do so without making everything do so.
>   

A "workaround" for this is to set 
"browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" to True
via "about:config" in Firefox.

Not perfect, but less intrusive.