610246 - Incorrect tab shown (foreground tab) when currently open tab is closed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533232

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bryan Kramer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

This problem applies to Thunderbird as well.

Suppose I have several tabs open and am browsing in the first tab.
I click on open link in new tab, then click on the new tab to view the information.
I then click close on that tab.

Firefox seems to display the tab to the right of the one I closed.

The behaviour that I would like to see is that the last tab I was looking at before closing the currently open tab is shown.

E.g., if I have a list of search results in tab one, open a link in a new tab, then close that new tab, I really really want to see the search results again, not something that happened to be to the right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open several tabs
2. do a search in first tab
3. invoke open link in new tab on a link
4. switch to the newly opened tab
5. close newly opened tab
Actual Results:  
Tab to the right of the closed tab became the foreground tab

Expected Results:  
Tab1 should be the foreground tab

All tabbed versions of Firefox and Thunderbird

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Please file a separate bug for Thunderbird.