1771360 - When closing current active tab switch to last active tab instead of parent/left tab.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[tomorrow]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0

Steps to reproduce:

Say you have 3 tabs open, you are currently on the 2nd tab.
Now you open a link on that page in a new tab and change (from the 2nd) to that new 4th tab. After checking it out, you close that 4th tab.

Actual results:

You find yourself on the 3rd tab. But what you really want to do is to continue where you left off - which would be the 2nd tab!

Expected results:

So in short when closing a tab, Firefox should take you to the previous active tab instead of the parent/left tab.

This would an optional pref in about:config
Reason for this request is the fact that currently there are no add-ons that offer this behavior.

The best i could find put a button in the toolbar that when clicked allowed me to switch between current active and last active tabs but behavior when closing current active was unchanged.

Comment 1

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

I will set this enhancement as new so the engineering team could decide if they take in consideration changing this.

Comment 2

[Dyne Hash]

I'd like to see this in Firefox, just like it is in Zen Browser.