When the focused tab is closed, the focus moves to an old, possibly unloaded tab
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Open tabs to various web pages with Ctrl-T.
- Switch to a tab that isn't the rightmost tab.
- Close this tab.
Actual results:
The focus is changed to the tab on the right of the closed tab, even if it was old and unloaded.
Expected results:
Firefox should make a better choice. The last viewed tab is generally not a bad one.
Bug 1811162 was closed because of bug 748666 comment 5, but if the goal is to open a related tab, Firefox should implement a mechanism to remember the relation between tabs. Systematically opening the tab on the right (which may be completely unrelated to the closed tab) is a poor solution.
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Updated•3 months ago
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Comment 1•3 months ago
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One case for which this is particularly annoying: Say, one has two consecutive tabs A and D. From te focused tab A, one clicks on a link with the middle button to open the link in a new tab, giving tab B. From tab B, one clicks on a link with the middle button to open the link in a new tab, giving tab C. So one has A B C D. Then closing tab C gives A B D with the focus on tab B as expected. But at this point, closing tab B gives A D with the focus on tab D instead of tab A.
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Comment 2•3 months ago
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I think this is more an enhancement, marking as new for engineering input. Thank you.
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