Open gallery tabs without switching to them?

[darkred3]

The Read button of the right click menu should be changed to

• Be placed at the very top instead of second to last. Every browser I know of (Firefox, Chrome) does exactly this, because opening a link in another tab is the most used option of the right click menu.
• Open the tab as a "background tab" instead of "foreground tab"

[Difegue]

Both of those are pretty easy, it's just a matter of:

• moving the admin options block after Read/download in index.html.tt2's context menu
• Use the openInNewTab() JS function for the read button instead of the location.href that's probably in there right now.

[Difegue]

Fixed. 👏

[darkred3]

@Difegue Been almost a year and I totally forgot to ever reply lol. The archives still open in foreground, can this be fixed?

[Asinin3]

Just hold down ctrl when you click open gallery and it will open a tab instead?

[Difegue]

Oh right, I thought "background tab" meant just opening a new tab, but you'd also want the browser to not automatically switch to it?

I'm not sure this is a widely-desired UX change -- Never had many reports about it.
Wouldn't the holding ctrl trick be enough for you?

[darkred3]

@Difegue I didn't know about this ctrl trick, thank you. Personally though, I still think LRR should mimick default browser behavior by opening new gallery tabs in background. It is what Firefox, Chrome and probably all other browsers do, so I assume new users would expect this behavior.

[Difegue]

Middle mouse click also works for this, btw.

I'll convert this issue to a Discussion so others can see it and eventually chime on changing this behavior, but I currently think it should stay as-is: It'd certainly be going against browser defaults.