560641 - Opening a new tab gives a tab at the right end of the existing tabs. Whereas, the expected behavior is to open it next to the current tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 528005

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Sujit Kumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

The build identifier for my FF is below:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When there are multiple tabs opened on the browser and I try to open a new tab, a new tab is created at the right end of the existing tabs. I have read that the default behavior for this version is to open a tab immediate next to the current tab. 

I tried modifying the browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent flag in about:config file. But the behavior doesn't change even after modyifying the flag. So, this leaves the users with experiencing only one behavior of the browser.

Though some users prefer tabs to be opened at the end of all tabs, it would be better if this is configurable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open more than one tabs on the browser
2.Now, from the first tab, do google search for any word. Try to open any search result in a new tab.
3.A new tab will be opened at the end of the tabs list.
4.Now, open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
5. In the filer bar type, 'browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent'. A preference name 'browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent' can be seen,  change it's value by double clicking on it.
6. Restart the broswer and repeat steps 1,2. This should result in the observation stated in step 3
Actual Results:  
New tab being opened at the end of all tabs. This eature can not be configured.

Expected Results:  
New tab must be opened right next to the current tab. And this feature should be configurable.

Comment 2

[Rob Simpson]

New tab must be opened right next to the current tab.

However, if a second tab is opened from the same page, _it_ must be opened to the right of the first tab that was opened, otherwise the new tabs will be backwards!  For example, if you have the following tabs open already:

 Site A-Page 1, Site B-Page 1

and open additional pages that are all linked from the first page of Site B,
they should appear in the following order:

 Site A-Page 1, Site B-Page 1, Site B-Page 2, Site B-Page 3, Site B-Page 4,
etc.

NOT:

 Site A-Page 1, Site B-Page 1, Site B-Page 4, Site B-Page 3, Site B-Page 2,
etc.