513459 - Preference specifying if new tabs open next to current tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 465673

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[John Morkel]

Attachment: Changes new tabs to open next to current tab

Currently new tabs in firefox open at the end of the list of tabs, which can cause related tabs to be far apart on the tab panel. Other browsers' default behaviour (chrome and opera) is to have new tabs open adjacent to the current tab. This groups related tabs on the tab panel which is more intuitive.

I have created a patch that adds a new preference to the tabs preferences dialog enabling the user to specify if they want new tabs to open next to the current tab rather than at the end of the tabs list.

For ease of testing, the patch enables this new behaviour by default, but should probably be introduced as an option without changing default behaviour.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

If this bug ends up fixed bug 262459 and bug 465673 should be updated/duped.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

We should probably only do that if the new tab loads a link from the current tab. Otherwise there's not necessarily a relation between the two, so this behavior won't make sense.