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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It’s not a focus issue. The problem is that clicking the "Tweet" button
requests opening the page in a popup window, which the browser doesn’t
allow, so it falls back to opening it in a background tab. On desktop we
plan to eventually support multiple windows (although the exact scope of
the feature is still to be defined). On a phone, this would be the
expected behaviour.

** Summary changed:

- Focus on the wrong tab when sharing a page using share buttons
+ On desktop, target="_blank" link should open new windows, not background tabs

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1530376

Title:
  On desktop, target="_blank" link should open new windows, not
  background tabs

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In webbrowser-app, when you share a web page using the "share buttons", you get the wrong tab: you remain on the same tab instead being on the new tab.
  You can reproduce the bug every time, e.g.:
  1) open the link http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/space-for-europe-and-for-all-humankind-a-brief-history-of-the-esa/
  2) click on the "social button Twitter" (see attacchment "1")
  3) the webbrowser-app opens a new tab, but you remain on the first one (see "2")
  4) if you click on the first tab, you refresh it so you can see the page (see "3")
  5) if you click on the second tab, you can see the right page, and you can share the link (see "4")

  Happens with webbrowser-app 0.23+15.10.20150929-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu
  15.10 desktop and Ubuntu Phone OTA 8.5.

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