Putting the reins on crontab ...

[Langstracht]

I have crontab open up a bunch of urls for me - typically web sites but also files - which is good. However the page brought up becomes the active page. Which is bad.

Time after time I am blithely typing away and look up only to find that I have either typed nothing (cos I am now in a web page) or useless stuff into a file.

So! Can I, how can I, continue to have crontab do its work ... but open the page in the background?

Thanks for any assistance.

[steeldriver]

AFAIK that would depend how you're opening the URLs and how your browser decides to load them - for example When a pop-up is opened in a new tab, do NOT switch to it immediately for Firefox

[Langstracht]

You'd think ...

Curiously my firefox is bas ackwards.

My choice is "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately". This has NEVER been ticked.