Description: When opening a hyperlink or mailTo link in LibreOffice Writer by using Ctrl+Left click, the standard webbrowser or standard E-mailclient is opened in the background or just stays minimized, keeping Writer as topmost window. In Windows, the browser/mailclient will always be opened in the background In Linux, if the browser/mailclient has to be opened from scratch it will be opened in the backround, if it only was minimized it will come into the foreground though. Problem still persists with version 5.2.6.2 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a Writer document or create a new one 2. Insert a Hyperlink or MailTo link 3. Ctrl + Left click the link Actual Results: Browser/Mailclient opens in the background or stays minimized. Expected Results: Browser/Mailclient will be brought on top for immediate use. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
Thomas Beck committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ad711bc6e2cc35c2ed114fff15008d5bbcfcf21c tdf#107587 Opening Hyperlink opens Browser in Background. It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Current fix worked for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Firefox however needs further investigation.
Thomas Beck committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=45b2e11a6756ed322cda932142c31366fc2b6da6&h=libreoffice-5-3 tdf#107587 Opening Hyperlink opens Browser in Background. It will be available in 5.3.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Setting this as fixed, the firefox issue was fixed with bug 116305.