574385 - New tabs appear too far down the tabstrip (related tabs aren't related)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

If you go to google.com and search for results and open a bunch of results in tabs. Then go to google reader and click a bunch of articles. The tabs for those articles appear after the search results.

This happens because you're always in the same tab even after switching pages/domains.

Arguably, this could be the right behavior in some situations:
1) search on google for "topic" and open a few results in tabs
2) go to bing (in the same tab) and seach for "topic" and open in tabs

ux-mode-error for users expecting the tabs to be opened next to the current tab, which happens most of the time but not after switching links.

Comment 1

[Ian Pottinger]

This and related problems would have been avoided if Firefox had adopted the more predictable tab open behaviour A-A3-A2-A1-B instead of the current A-A1-A2-A3-B

Comment 2

[Fred Chasen [:fchasen]]

Attachment: Bug 574385 - Reset related tabs on system triggered page navigations r?mhowell

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/2a672ab008ec
Reset related tabs on system triggered page navigations r=mhowell

Comment 4

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2a672ab008ec