Closed Bug 167799 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

closing tab should returns to previous tab

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105722

People

(Reporter: rick, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

Details

First off, I know this will most likely be marked as a duplicate but please bear with me for a moment of rational discussion. My general usage patterns for Mozilla are to have several (5 - 8) tabs open at any given time. These typically include "My Yahoo" page, Google search, some Java docs, and various pages of interest with many links. Many times I do a Yahoo! or Google search for some information. I typically middle-click on a result to bring up a new page. I scan the new page, and when finished, I close it. At these times I wish the current tab close behavior was to bring me back to the previous tab (the search results list tab) and not the right most tab. Occasionaly when doing a search I open several matches at once and want to review them one at a time. In this case, the current behavior of returning to the right most tab (as of 1.1) makes sense. More often then not though, I perform my first scenario and would prefer tab closing to take me to the previously viewed tab. Now, before I created this RFE, I did a bugzilla search and found quite a few similar requests with some rather "interesting" discussions on the topic. A few things became quite clear from reading all the different discussions and individuals bugs. First, many users have expressed an interest in either changing the current tab close behavior to something different or for the creation of some preferences so a user can select what they prefer from several possibilities. Second, the module owner seems determined to ignore the wishes of so many users. I respectfully ask the module owner to reconsider their position. If so many people are requesting this type of change, as is evident from the countless duplicates and apparent requests in newsgroups, there must be some validity to adding a change. I personally like having more preferences. Power users like flexibility. Casual users will simply ignore the new preferences and will happily live with the default. Since there is no way to change the current default to some other behavior that would make all users happy, the suggestion to add a preference would be the best choice. Give a user two or three choices (return right most, return to previous focus, and maybe return to "parent" tab). These choices seemed to cover the majority of other user's requests. I know there are others. I would go so far as to make these options available from the tab context menu so I may quickly change my preference quickly depending on the type of search or usage I'm currently involved in. Please consider this enhancement. Thank you for your time. Rick
See Bug 105722, "Closing tabs should return to 'parent' tab" and discussion there. Probably dupe.
Why don't you just install Tabbrowser Extensions into Mozilla? It will add the preferences you want and add several new features to the context menu on each tab. There will be special preferences for what you want located in the Tabbed browsing heading in Preferences. http://www.cc-net.or.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.en.html
dupe of bug 127586 which is dupe of bug 105722 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105722 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Request Enhancement to current tab closing behavior → closing tab should returns to previous tab
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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