584459 - Don't necesarily create a new tab at the rightmost position in the tab bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 528005

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Christian Sasso]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

This is an enhancement request, not a "real" bug.

Say I have five tabs already open, and right clicking on the second one I select "New Tab": I believe it would make a lot of sense if the new tab was created immediately at the right of the one I clicked, i.e. if the new tab became the third, instead than the sixth (and then I have to drag the new tab from the 6th position the the 3rd).

Regards, chris

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 5 tabs.
2. Right click on 2nd tab.
3. Select "New Tab".

Actual Results:  
The new tab has been created in 6th position.

Expected Results:  
The new tab should have been created in 3rd position (of course, what was the original 3rd tab now becomes the 4th etc).

This is just an enhancement request, so it is not urgent.

I feel natural that if I click on a specific position on the tab bar, I mean to create the new tab *there*, instead currently, no matter what, the new tab is always created at the end.

At some level I feel that this behavior would be more consistent with the fact that when I "Open Link in New Tab", the new tab is created immediately at the right of the current tab, and not in the right most position.