554706 - Opening new tabs is not easily predictable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 514799

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Jarvis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2

When opening a link in a new tab, the old behaviour of Firefix (prior to 3.6.2) caused the new tab to open at the end of the list.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Control-click a link

Actual Results:  
Link opens in new tab, beside the current tab.

Expected Results:  
Link opens in new tab, at the end of tab list.

This should be a preference.

Tools >> Options >> Tabs

[ ] Open tabs beside current tab

Comment 1

[Matthew Harrison]

I definitely agree that this should be an option for the user to change in the GUI, especially since it was a "silent" change that I didn't see announced in the release notes anywhere.

You can revert to the old behavior by going to about:config and setting browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to "false".  I wrote about it at http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2010/03/change-firefox-362-default-tab-ordering.html

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2)
> Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2)
> Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
> 
> When opening a link in a new tab, the old behaviour of Firefix (prior to 3.6.2)
> caused the new tab to open at the end of the list.
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Control-click a link
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Link opens in new tab, beside the current tab.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Link opens in new tab, at the end of tab list.
> 
> This should be a preference.
> 
> Tools >> Options >> Tabs
> 
> [ ] Open tabs beside current tab