225277 - when closing a tab, tab focus should return to most-recently-used tab, not right-most tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144207

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When I have multiple tabs open, I am usually reading a long news story (or
Slashdot) page and opening related links in new tabs. When I close one of these
new tabs, I would like the tab focus to go back to the most recently used tab
(probably the long news story page). Instead, the browser gives the focus to the
right-most tab (i.e. the most recently OPENED but possibly unseen). I am using
Firebird 0.7 on Windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 3 tabs
2. Right-click on tab #1 (the left-most tab)
3. Right-click on tab #2 (second-from-left tab)
4. Close tab #2


Actual Results:  
Tab focus goes to tab #3 (right-most tab)

Expected Results:  
Tab focus should go to most-recently-used tab #1

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144207 ***