Comment 25 for bug 175904

(In reply to comment #6)
> 1. new-window : makes sense to open on current desktop
> 2. new-tab: moving all tabs to current desktop is annoying; but opening new
> tab on other desktop is probably too confusing.

What about opening new tab on other desktop and flashing the window title button?

> Thus: if new-tab is selected as open mode, use new-window if there is no
> firefox window on current desktop. optionally, we could add a pref to disable
> this auto-new-window feature for power users that want the ffox 2 behaviour.

I would certainly make use of that pref. :)