I think it is theoretically possible for an add-on to move a tab in a new window to the end of the tab bar in the last active window, and that probably would also switch the view to the receiving window. However, I haven't tried to code/test it.

My initial thought is that you would need to click a button, since detecting that a window was opened from an external link and is on a different desktop than the previous active window looks difficult.

I can't tell whether the following will do that: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/move-tab-to-next-window/. Since it only requires menu permissions, it looks safe to try.

The move tab extension works fantastically for my problem. It's not quite as good as the behavior being automatic, but it's definitely good enough to save me a big headache. Thanks!

I've encountered this issue as well.

I have a dedicated virtual desktop solely for browser windows, I've been accustomed to using it this way for many years. And I've always considered it a feature, not a bug, that any link clicked, regardless of the virtual desktop, would open in the existing browser window.

I hope there's a setting (even if it's in about:config) that could revert to the previous behavior. Having browser windows on every virtual desktop is really driving me crazy.

I have same issue. this is very disappointed. I would like to have a choice of which operation to use.

There is a new "Request for Enhancement" bug on file to add a preference for this (as of 20 minutes ago):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1994825

If that is simple to implement (I have no idea), it could become available in Firefox 145 next month.

I was able to get this into Firefox 145 (releasing around November 11), and the pref is setting "widget.prefer_windows_on_current_virtual_desktop" to false.

Thanks for the feedback!

Amazing! Thanks very much for the choice (something ever rarer in today's world). I guess I'll try the add-on until version 145 is released.