Closed Bug 1130958 Opened 10 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Ctrl-Tab should cycle through last opened tabs

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Version:
SeaMonkey 2.32 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
FreeBSD
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 565568

People

(Reporter: etgirdeinre, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 Build ID: 20150206222320 Steps to reproduce: Press Ctrl-Tab or Shift-Ctrl-Tab Actual results: I get to the next/previous tab in the tabs list Expected results: I should get to the tab I have seen before and so on (like cycling through windows in usual window managers)
@AB: Any good reasons for your expectation? the current behavior is in accordance to IE and FF. I doubt that Seamonkey handle that in a different way. And do you really want to do that in a different way from E-mail, where also TABs are possible?
Well Opera behaves/d like that, FF can be configured to behave like that, and as I said window managers with alt-tab (and Windows). And mail tabs should behave the same, yes. Also if I close a tab, I get back to the last seen tab, that would be in accordance to getting back to it by ctrl-tab.
It is just much better - if you open a new tab, and want to look back to the tab you came from. You don't have to search for that in the list of tabs. - you switch back and forth between the last two or more tabs.
> FF can be configured to behave like that I can not find these settings. Can you make a "Make available TAB-switch-Settings from FF Menu 'xx -> yy -> zz -> Keyboard TAB navigation' (or similar) for Browser and email client" of your request?
It's most probably an add-on
http://en.design-noir.de/mozilla/ctrl-tab/ Converting this for seamonkey doesn't work. And I don't see why SM has to behave like FF
Did you already test Monkeyfix? I only read summary, may be something like requested is already integrated or Monkeyfix could get that as a new feature?
Didn't know that but it doesn't have this feature. So you think it's normal that an add-on is needed to fix SM's behaviour?
> you think it's normal that an add-on is needed not necessarily, but I think that many Seamonky users are quite happy with the current behavior, and the more alternatives we have the better the chance will be that Seamonky will get this feature.
I asked MonkeyFix creators to leave a statement here.
Even ordinary programs like MS Word or netbeans or ... switch tabs/files by Crtl-Tab in the order last visited.
This would be tricky to implement. Is there anything in the browser that already stores the order of tabs last visited? It would be a lot easier if there were.
Yes, that's the question. At least the one previous tab is stored as you can get to it by clicking on the current tab. At least this function could be bound to Ctrl-Tab ...
(In reply to AB from comment #13) > Yes, that's the question. At least the one previous tab is stored as you can > get to it by clicking on the current tab. At least this function could be > bound to Ctrl-Tab ... What do you mean you can get to it by clicking on the current tab?
ok this seems to be only the case with my converted https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/verttabbar/ but it proves it anyway
Well that's a whole-scale refactoring of the tabbar. Obviously if you rewrite from scratch you can do what you want. Neil tells me that there is nothing in the tabbar that remembers the order of the tabs visited, so this feature would need implementing from scratch.
It seems the feature requested here has come in the Nightly build. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565568 for more information
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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