New Tabs Having or not Having Focus

When "Text" display is enabled in the Options of NewsFox, double clicking on the title of an article in the upper pane (or using a defined keystroke for opening an article) opens the article in a new tab in the background. But clicking on the link to an article in the lower pane (text display option) opens the article in a new tab that has focus.

Actually, I'd prefer that behaviour the other way round, or rather the new tabs to have focus always. Can it be done? Am using the Tab Mix Plus extension, but the "Tab Focus" settings there don't affect the behaviour of the new tabs opening in the background in NewsFox (from within the upper pane).

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