240125 - return to parent/origin tab instead of neighbor tab when closing child tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105722

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[john smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This feature would/should/could increase the flow of surfing:

Whenever you open a link in a new/child tab and close the new/child tab, Firefox
should return to the parent tab.

Instead Firefox returns to the neighbor tab.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open one Firefox window.
2. Open more than one tab.
3. Load www.mozilla.org in the leftmost tab.
4. Click a link to open the link in a new/child tab.
5. Close the new/child tab.
Actual Results:  
After closing the new/child tab, Firefox doesn't return to the leftmost
www.mozilla.org tab, but to the tab that is next to the new/child tab.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should return to the leftmost www.mozilla.org tab.

Please make it optional.

What about calling it "Return to parent tab when closing child tab"?

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105722 ***