465026 - Searching in the ctrl-tab panel shouldn't select the current tab even its the first of multiple results

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081114 Minefield/3.1b2pre ID:20081114034305

With the new Ctrl+Tab revision the panel looks like the same as the All+Tabs one. Both variants allow the user to search in the list of open tabs. The results of both searches would be the same but the initial selected preview should be handled differently.

The purpose to open Ctrl+Tab is to switch to another tab. If a huge amount of tabs are open and the user starts a search for a given search term, several results could be returned and shown in the panel. In case when the search also matches the currently open tab, which of these shown previews should be initially selected? Due to the aim of switching tabs we shouldn't select the currently open tab as what we do currently. Instead the next search result should be selected. That will lessen the key strokes the user has to make to get to the wanted tab.

This behavior should only happen for Ctrl+Tab and not for the All+Tabs panel. With the latter one it's fine to have the currently open tab selected (see bug 464578).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Close all open tabs
2. Open http://www.google.de in a tab
3. Open http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ in a tab
4. Open http://www.heise.de/ in another tab
5. Press Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-F to focus the search field
6. Search for "ine"

As you can see the first result is always selected, even if it's the currently open tab. We should skip the first result for the Ctrl+Tabs panel instead.