360393 - Closing tab4 after it was opened from tab1 link, firefox dosent take you back to tab1.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 345033

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[jeroi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If I have many tabs open and I am browsing with tab1 or any tab which is not the last tab, and open a new tab from a website link. I just look what that link have and then want to close it and continue to browse with the tab1 website, firefox closes the tab but opens the last tab not the tab what you were browsing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open atleast 2 tabs.
2. Browse with tab1.
3. Click at the webpage some link with midle button to open link in new tab, which will be tab3.
4. Close the tab and you will be at tab2, not tab1.

Actual Results:  
Firefox will show last tab.

Expected Results:  
To show last used tab.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 345033 ***