270836 - After Closing Tab, Focus should go to Last Active Tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105722

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[reedjd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When closing a tab, the active tab is set to next tab (to the right) or if
closing the right-most tab, back to the left again.

Feature request is to have it switch back to the last active tab.

Most common scenario is browing in Tab #1 (with lots of tabs after).  Open a
link in a new tab, finish reading it, and then you are dropped to the furthest
right tab which is the one you likely wish to be in.

Less common scenario.  I have one website (www.fastbuzz.com) that uses popup
windows to drive some functionality.  If I turn on Mozilla experimental feature
of opening all popups in a new tab any time I click somewhere it pops open a new
tab which immediately closes but leaves me on the right most tab (instead of the
one I wish to be on).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Three tabs
2. In the tab #1 open a web-page and then open a link in a new tab (it will tab #4)
3. Close Tab #4 and you now on tab #3

Actual Results:  
You are on Tab #3 which is not the content you were previously on.

Expected Results:  
To be back on Tab #1 which trigger the link.

Comment 1

[Ross Shannon]

This has been debated for years. There's an extension that does it
<http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/flst>, but I don't think it's ever
going to be the default behaviour.

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