1468082 - The "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" option should also affect closing tabs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P5)

Description

[fabian.schmied]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180516032328

Steps to reproduce:

Enable the "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" option to get most recently used (MRU) tab switching behavior


Actual results:

Works for switching tabs, but when I close a tab, the tab to the right of the closed tab is activated, ignoring MRU behavior


Expected results:

The most recently used tab should be activated when another tab is closed

Related support question here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1185889

Comment 1

[Stefan [:StefanG_QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 (20180611100116)

I have tested this report and I can clearly see the mentioned behavior. When the "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" is checked in about:preferences, I can navigate through the recently used tabs. However, it would be great when closing tabs to have the same behavior or order. Currently, when closing a tab, the tab to the right of the closed tab is activated, ignoring MRU behavior.

Comment 2

[fabian.schmied]

Just noticed this also affects what tab is activated when another tab is dragged to a new window. It would be great if this also applied the MRU behavior.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

The UX and product team looked at this and decided not to change anything here.