541556 - Closing Message Tabs opens the sequentially next tab, not the 3pane view

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 508776

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[bege10]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 - Build ID: 20100111101938

When the calender tab (and/or task tab) is open while one works on emails, the tab for the displayed email is opened right of the lightning tab.
When one closes the tab of the current email, the focus switches to the lightning tab, not to the thunderbird general folder view. So after closing each email one has to click on the folder tab to go on with the next email or one has to close the calender tab, which is not comfortable sometimes either.
Is it e.g. possible to have the lightning tabs always on the very right so that email folder and detail display tabs are next to each other?


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Moving this to Thunderbird Land to get some input. This is potentially not only a Problem with Lightning, but also with any other extension that adds tabs, or maybe even a Thunderbird search tab.

Comment 2

[Michael A. Pasek]

Given that tabs are modeled on tabs in broswers (e.g., FF), I would expect the same behavior for tabs in Thunderbird: Closing one tab would cause focus to shift to the next tab to the left (if the tab was the right-most one), or to the next tab to the right (if the tab was not the right-most one).  

I think the ideal solution for the reporter's case would be to allow tabs to be "torn off" to their own window.