159862 - Tabbed Browsing "X" should move to right

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123563

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Bitmead]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

There should be the option with tabbed browsing that when you "X" destroy a tab,
it moves onto the next right tab, not the next left as it is now. In fact I
think it should be the default personally.

Reason: The most common use of tabbed browsing is to open a portal site, like
say a newspaper. Then middle click a bunch of stories (with "load in backgroud"
option naturally. One tends to start clicking with the most interesting stories
first (the headlines typically) and work down to some less interesting stuff.
And one wants to read the headlines first naturally.

However the most convenient order to read tabbed windows right now is right to
left. This is because you can just leave the mouse over the "X" and destroy the
tabs one by one as they are read, and they are destroyed right to left. However
this means reading stories in the least interesting first, most interesting last
order which is annoying.

The solution is to have the option (or the default) that when you click "X" the
next default tab is the one to the right, not the one to the left. This allows
the main newspaper tab to be the first tab, the main headline the second, down
to the most minor story on the right. Then one can click the main headline (2nd
tab) and leave the mouse over the "X" reading the stories in order from headline
down to smallest story.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Sander]

Good thinking. Must be why it's behaved this way on the trunk since early June. :)
When reporting bugs or suggesting enhancements, please try to at least get the
latest milestone build (Mozilla 1.1 Beta at this point), or preferably a recent
nightly to make sure it hasn't been solved already. Development moves fast.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123563 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

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