127048 - When closing tab, focus should move right

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105722

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dominic Battre]

Imagine you have 3 tabs A B C and the focus is on B. Closing the tab with ^W
moves the focus to A instead of C. I think that the latter would be more natural
as it is similar to the behaviour of the delete key in editors.

Example situation: On a newsticker page, you open every news that you are
interested in with the middle mousebutton. You cannot read the news in the order
you opend them if you use ^W to close the tabs. (you have to close a tab and
move the focus to the next one each time)

Comment 1

[ltskinol]

I agree with the reporter that this is more natural.  Ex: reading a
message thread, you open-in-new-tab the replies in the thread, one
by one.  Then, to read them in the order in which you opened them,
you have to continually forward-peddle to get to the next message
after closing the message you just read.

FWIW, the focus moves right if the leftmost tab is closed.

Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

Al these things are being discussed in bug 105722

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105722 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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