555082 - Tab ordering lost on opening windows

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[TamusJRoyce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When right clicking and opening new windows, order of opening tabs is lost.  Tab should open up directly to the right every time.  It should not skip a tab when opening multiple links from the same tab.

Also, sorry for asking for previous tab ordering to be restored.  Opening tabs in the correct order worked previously, and fixing such a minor issue to cause this one is extremely annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open www.google.com as tab 1.
2. Open www.google.com as tab 2.
3. Right click and open as new tab on tab 1 for the images link at the top.
4. Right click and open as new tab on tab 1 for the map link at the top.
5. Select tab 2 and Right click and open as new tab for images link at the top.
6. Select first original tab and right click and open as new tab for videos.

Actual Results:  
[Tab 1] [Tab 1->3, Video link] [Tab 1->1, Image Link] [Tab 1->2, Map Link] [Tab 2] [Tab 2->1, Image Link].

Expected Results:  
[Tab 1] [Tab 1->3, Video link] [Tab 1->2, Map Link] [Tab 1->1, Image Link] [Tab 2] [Tab 2->1, Image Link].

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514799 is WONTFIX.  It shouldn't be taken so lightly, as people have relied on this tab opening/ordering scheme for over 7 years.  But even so, tab ordering is still being lost with the current way tab opening works.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/charter.html does state that the top priority is having the right set of features.  I would just like tab ordering to be consistent after switching between multiple tabs.

Opening tabs in the correct order is more important than the order in which they are closed, as each tab as a X by it that allows you to pick and choose tabs to close, even if the appear in a slightly different order than you expect it.  This bug was introduced with issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465673.

But previous tab ordering would have tabs like:

[Tab 1] [Tab 2] [Tab 1->1, Image Link] [Tab 1->2, Map Link] [Tab 2->1, Image Link] [Tab 1->3, Video link].

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

This behavior is expected because you are switching tab in-between steps 4 and 6. Dao, can you remember the bug we can dupe this to?

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [::dao]]

nope