I’ve written a bookmarklet to look a word up in a Chinese dictionary: javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt(‘%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD’,”))};if(Qr)(function(){window.open(‘http://nciku.com/search/all/’+Qr);})();

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Asked: May 12, 20262026-05-12T08:44:51+00:00 2026-05-12T08:44:51+00:00

I’ve written a bookmarklet to look a word up in a Chinese dictionary: javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt(‘%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD’,”))};if(Qr)(function(){window.open(‘http://nciku.com/search/all/’+Qr);})();

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I’ve written a bookmarklet to look a word up in a Chinese dictionary:

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);})();

This opens a new tab with search results for your selected word or a word you type in at the prompt. Is there a way to load the new tab in the background? I’d like to keep the focus on the page I’m looking at, and look at the search results later.

There is an option “When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately” in Firefox, this doesn’t help.

Edit: Note that this is for my use, so an answer that tells me how to change Firefox (3.0.11) settings to do this would work as well. Also I’ve tried the following modification, but it’s still focusing the new tab.

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){var%20oldWin=this;window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);oldWin.focus()})();

Edit 2:

Looking around to see if I can find an answer I see this guy who’s got the opposite problem (new tabs don’t get focus, but he wants them to have it), but with no resolution:

Possible to set tab focus in IE7 from JavaScript

There’s apparently talk about a _tab target in HTML 5, but that doesn’t help me much.

http:/ /forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=185&highlight=tab+focus

(apparently as a new user I can only post one link, so I’ve mauled it)

This seems pretty broken browser behaviour if this is impossible.