358993 - middle click on link should open tab next to current tab not the end

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 465673

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Tae Kim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When middle clicking on a link, the new tab opens to the right of all open tabs.
When the tabs are overflowing, it doesn't look like anything happened except for the right arrow highlighting very briefly. This is very annoying because after you middle click a bunch of links you're interested in, you have to scroll all the way to the right to see the new tabs.

Instead, the new tab should open to the right of the current tab so that you can see the tab you just opened. If the new tab overflows, it should shift slightly to the right so that the new tab stays in view.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make tabs overflow
2.Middle click a link to open in a new tab

Actual Results:  
The new tab opens at the end of the tabs but you can't see it because it is already overflowing.

Expected Results:  
The new tab opens next to the current tab and is immediately visible.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This would help get rid of the tab-closing heuristics I hate.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262459 ***