>> * Firefox 3 does not maintain its native workspace when a link is clicked in >> another workspace. A great example of this is if I click a link in >> Thunderbird on Workspace 2, Firefox 3 which is homed on Workspace 4 switches >> to Workspace 2. This behavior is inconsistent with previous releases. >> > > This is an annoying new "feature" resulting from the fact that FireFox > now supports startup notification. As a result, Metacity enforces it's > policy on FireFox which is to move it to the active workspace. > > I despite it as well, but supposedly, the GNOME Metacity developers are > working on a solution that allows applications that do need to go to the > active workspace (I question that) to do so without making everything do so. >
A "workaround" for this is to set "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" to True via "about:config" in Firefox. Not perfect, but less intrusive.
