Is there a way to get Safari to download tabs in background?

Hi there,
If I do a search on something and as I scroll through the search results, I usually Command Click to open a result in a new tab.
I could open about 5 or 6 tabs but none of them download until I click on the tab to bring it into focus. So if I'm scanning down the results and one of the tabs could be a PDF, it only starts loading once I activate the tab which seems a bit of an illogical waste of time as it could be have downloaded in the background while I was looking at other things. What it does do however is that if I click on a tab that could be a PDF d/l of about 5 MB say, as soon as I activate the tab, it starts to download, I can then zap to another tab, get that to download, zap to the third tab, then the fourth and so on... So my usual ritual is to do my search, open the search results in several tabs, and then quickly zap through each one of the new tabs to start the screen loading.
So... Is there a setting in Safari to get EACH tab to download as soon as I Command click?
I find Firefox to be a miles better browser than Safari but switched to Safari because FF had a slight irritating "nudgey" delay when scrolling which Safari doesn't. However, maybe I should switch back to FF because there are far too many "quirky irritations" with Safari that I'm noticing... e.g. if I have one tab open, it doesn't display a tab, but when I open a new tab (i.e. a second tab) in the background, the first screen jerks down because the tab for the first screen now appears! It should be there initially!
Anyway, I apologise for digressing... if there's some setting for background loading of tabs in Safari, it would be great!
Thanks, Maz

You're right.. Command click from search results should open in a new tab then load that webpage.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click: Remove All Website Data
Then delete the cache.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If nothing above helped, troubleshoot Safari extensions.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.
If nothing above has helped, make sure your system software is up to date.
Click the Apple  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click Software Update.

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