1916390 - Extensions settings and other options opened as the last tab in the tab tray, it should open right next to the tab we are in the tab tray

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: WebExtensions, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Claudiu]

Attachment: mobizen_20240903_125110.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:132.0) Gecko/132.0 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Extensions settings opened as the last tab in the tab tray, it should open right next to the tab we are in the tab tray. Since many tabs are open, we are on the first tab from the top list, after we enter the settings of an extension, that tab moves as the last tab and the string where we left off is lost, if there are a lot of tabs.

Actual results:

An extension's settings open last tab, being on the first tab in the tab tray.

Expected results:

An extension's settings should open after the current tab, no matter where it is in the tab tray.

Comment 1

[Claudiu]

Can it be checked?

Comment 2

[Claudiu]

Attachment: mobizen_20240903_154851.mp4

I looked better and I see that all the link addresses and options that can be opened from each extension are affected, they open at the bottom, being in the tray with tabs at the top. It would be nice to solve all the redirects to open the tab, after the current tab we are.

Comment 3

[Zac McKenney [:zmckenney]]

Currently, when you are on a tab in the middle of your list and you create a new tab we add it to the bottom of the list. Extension tab creation does the same. I'm not sure we want to change the behavior of extension tabs to be different from the regular behavior (which could cause confusion). eclaudiu64, are you suggesting this as an improvement to all tabs or just extension tabs?

Comment 4

[Claudiu]

I suggest all tabs, from any touch of a link in the app. That would be a much better improvement, because if a user has for example more than 200 tabs open, it will be difficult for them to scroll up again if they were on the first tab.