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Sometimes I receive emails with lots of links. Clicking on a link opens it in Safari, of course, but also brings Safari to the front. So then I have to switch back, click, and repeat.

I just discovered that Command-clicking on links in Mail.app will open the URLs in Safari without bringing Safari to the front.
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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: r0n on Aug 22, '05 11:23:01AM

Doesn´t work for me (10.3.9) - even after I switched off interfering extensions (like ICeCoffEE.ape)?



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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: kyngchaos on Aug 22, '05 11:24:56AM

I ran into this one recently also. Out of habit, in Safari I Cmd-click links to open them in a new tab instead of a new window. Sometimes I forget I'm in Mail and do that there, then wonder why I'm still in Mail, doh!



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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: Jwink3101 on Aug 22, '05 01:31:05PM

This works in Tiger. I can swear it has been covered because i do it and i recall reading it here. Maybe it was in a comment but still.

Anyway, 10.4.2 works with this hint



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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: timcrawf on Aug 22, '05 08:16:23PM

Rob, if your listening, I think this might be Tiger only, as stated previously.
I could not get this to work in Panther either. I don't believe it worked in anything previously, believe me I have tried!
I don't however have Tiger to test it in.



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Working in other Cocoa apps ...
Authored by: alanb1979 on Aug 22, '05 09:26:27PM

On Panther (10.3.9), I also found that this did not work in Mail.app.

However, it *did* work when Command-clicking a link in my RSS reader (Feed). Maybe it's a Cocoa thing?

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Never mind, all clicks in Feed go to background
Authored by: alanb1979 on Aug 23, '05 06:16:31AM

never mind, all clicks in my RSS reader, Feed, open background tabs

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Tiger yes, Panther no
Authored by: hombre on Aug 23, '05 01:17:52AM

I am running 10.4.2 and 10.3.9 on two different machines and can confirm that this works in Tiger and not in Panther.



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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: Dale Sorel on Aug 24, '05 09:09:11PM

You can also just drag a link from Mail into an open Safari window and it'll open into the background window while keeping Mail in front.



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Open Mail URLs in the background
Authored by: poenn on Feb 12, '09 06:31:13AM

This is a great hint when working with Spaces in 10.5. Not only would the browser come to the foreground, but you'd also be switched to another Space, if you assigned them!

I did just find that out and submitted it as a hint, but it's a duplicate to this hint. :-)



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