New tab NOT becoming active tab

[hand...@pimpinfinity.com]

Whenever I click Ctrl+T or press the + button for new tab it opens
new tab, BUT the new tabs doesn't become my active tab[It opens it in
background you could say]. It used to always be like that before
getting FF 5 beta 3, and still persists in FF 5 beta 5.

Any help would be grateful!

[g]

i am still using;

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17)
Gecko/20110429 Red Hat/3.6-1.el5_6 Firefox/3.6.17

tho settings should be same.

from main menu "tools > options > tabs";

[x] When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately

should be selected.

or, open "about:config", set "Filter:" to;

browser.tabs.loadinBackground

and set to 'false'.

check these links for a refresher;

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

hth.

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[Chris Ilias]

If you go to Firefox-->Help-->Restart_with_Add-ons_Disabled, does the
problem still occur? If not, the cause is probably an extension. See
<http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes>.
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[> spielt mit]

In my case it was the 'FoxTab' add on. Disabled it - works fine again.
Thanks for the hint Sirty!