Re: Middle-clicking on toolbar buttons to open new tabs

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 11/27/06, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> 2006/11/27, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com>:
>
> > For that matter, why is it ever natural to middle-click something and
> > have it appear in the background? That always seemed a silly default
> > to me.
>
> Not at all. A common scenario is where the user opens a number of
> links in background tabs (say, from a search results page) to inspect
> them at his own leisure. This is much easier to do when tabs don't pop
> to the foreground each time you open one.

I do this often (e.g. from my RSS reader site), but again, I'm talking
about default behavior; this seems to be a special scenario IMO.