348687 - Enhancement: Implement MRU list for tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217563

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[farid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

When multiple tabs are opened and user closes one tab, the previously selected tab should get displayed.  Use Most-Recently Used list to keep track of user tab selection changes. If user was viewing tab 2 and he then switches to tab 5 and closes tab 5, then tab 2 should become the current tab.

Also, use the same MRU list to cycle through the tabs forward or backward by using the Control-Tab and Shift-Control-Tab keys.  This allow the user to cycle between two or three tabs that are not adjacent to each other.  Note: cycling through the tabs using these key combinations should not change the relative order of tabs in the MRU list, just changes the currently displayed tab.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)
> When multiple tabs are opened and user closes one tab, the previously selected
> tab should get displayed.  Use Most-Recently Used list to keep track of user
> tab selection changes. If user was viewing tab 2 and he then switches to tab 5
> and closes tab 5, then tab 2 should become the current tab.

Firefox 2.0 already works like this.

> Also, use the same MRU list to cycle through the tabs forward or backward by
> using the Control-Tab and Shift-Control-Tab keys.  This allow the user to cycle
> between two or three tabs that are not adjacent to each other.  Note: cycling
> through the tabs using these key combinations should not change the relative
> order of tabs in the MRU list, just changes the currently displayed tab.

That would be too confusing for most people, IMHO.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

> If user was viewing tab 2 and he then switches to tab 5
> and closes tab 5, then tab 2 should become the current tab.

Dup of bug 217563.  Note that Firefox 2 will act like this in some circumstances, for example when a link causes a new selected tab to open and you close the new tab right away.

> Also, use the same MRU list to cycle through the tabs forward or backward by
> using the Control-Tab and Shift-Control-Tab keys.

Dup of a bug I can't find now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217563 ***