287631 - CTRL-TAB should switch to last-used tab instead of next tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178556

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Mellem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Netscape
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Currently, CTRL-TAB goes to the next tab in order from left to right. However,
this is inconvient when trying to continually switch between two non-adjacent
tabs. Firefox should rember the order that the tabs were last viewed, and
CTRL-TAB should switch to the tabs in that order.

SHIFT-CTRL-TAB would reverse this order, as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open several tabs (e.g. 5)
2. Look at tab 2.
3. Switch from tab 2 to tab 4 with CTRL-TAB+TAB.
4. Look at tab 4.
5. Press CTRL-TAB

Actual Results:  
It goes to tab 5.

Expected Results:  
It should to back to tab 2.

In the example, the tabs were opened in order, so the view list would be:
 4,3,2,1  (tab 5 is being viewed so it's not in the history).

Selecting tab 2 creates:
 5,4,3,1

Selecting tab 4 creates:
 2,5,3,1

So, the next CTRL-TAB will go back to tab 2.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178556 ***