Opening new tabs order messed up since the latest update?
There was something changed with the latest update 156.0.1 in regards to how new tabs open. I have been using the extension "Always right" for years as I wanted all my newly opened tabs and bookmarked websites to open right next to the one I am at, in order that I open them in. Had no issues until the recent update. So tabs and bookmarks.
To explain this better, lets start with tabs only. Scenario 1 - say the tab I am on is "youtube" and the tab right from it at this moment is "google" tab. So: youtube > google > rest of tabs. While on youtube, I click on 3 videos/links from that "youtube" tab to be opened as new tabs, in the order that I want to watch them, using the middle mouse button. It used to open them in order: youtube > 1st vid > 2nd > 3rd > google > rest. In other words, it pushed the "google" tab and opened the new video tabs in order that I clicked them in between the two. Scenario 2 - bookmarked toolbar links. They behave similar but slightly different since opening those instantly jumps to the tab, which is fine. If I use the middle mouse button to open amazon for example while I am on the "youtube" tab, it would do the same thing: youtube > amazon > google > rest, only it will instantly jump to amazon, but the important part is that amazon is next to the tab I was on (youtube in this case).
Now though, in scenario 1 with tabs, if I open 3 new video tabs from the "youtube" tab, the LATEST one is the one that ends up next to the first one, so youtube > 3rd video > 2nd > 1st > google > rest. In other words, ANY new tab is forced next to the current one, rather than in the order of opening like it was before.
Turning the extension off "fixes" scenario 1 and opens them in order again, but then opening a bookmarked website from your toolbar shoots you ALL THE WAY to the right. So scenario 2 is ruined. To extend on the previous example from scenario 2, if I have "youtube" and "google" is next to it, and I go to open amazon from my toolbar, it goes youtube > google > rest > amazon. With 3 tabs that might not be that big of an issue, but when you have 100 tabs and I am currently doing work on tab 1, your bookmarked link that you just opened with middle mouse button suddenly catapults you and opens as 101 instead of 2... I hope this is a bit clearer as to why it is a problem. You could have both scenarios work before with just this simple extension, but the update is now forcing me to choose between tabs opening properly in order as they should OR bookmark toolbar links opening next to the one I am on.
If there was some change to how tabs open in the latest update and the idea was to no longer need the extension, can we at least have the option to ALSO have any new websites opened from the bookmark toolbar open NEXT to our current one rather than at the very end?
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Zgjidhja e Zgjedhur
I think you're looking for a preference called browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent that would open bookmarks in tabs also to the right of the current one.
jbr said
I think you're looking for a preference called browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent that would open bookmarks in tabs also to the right of the current one.
This actually fixed it almost fully now. It is different in the sense that opening tabs first and then a bookmark will put the bookmark right next to the current window instead of after the tabs, which is the only unfortunate part. Or to use the example I gave with youtube, it would be youtube > new bookmark tab > 1st video > 2nd > etc. Ideally the tab opens AFTER the video tabs instead, so youtube > 1st vid > 2nd > new bookmark tab.
Still though, thank you for this. It is way better than before. I do wish this was in the settings instead, as it will be annoying to try remember this setting whenever a new Firefox install happens.
Just to confirm though, am I wrong remembering opening tabs and bookmarks all the way to the right was default? I am pretty confident the tab part has been changed recently at least.
Ndryshuar nga PuppetMaster000
I'm not sure, the "related" (=open from current page) have been like this for decade(s), the other far–end cases probably depended on the trigger and config (a setting for external–app triggers has been surfaced in tab/browsing options recently as well), but I don't have great visibility as I'm on this pref for my own sanity since its inception;D
(And you're right having something like "insert after related" would be a great feature; with both potentially accessible in settings. Fancy rummaging bugzilla or connect for anything already discussed or tracked to that tune?)
Recently there was this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938769 for a kind of a special case — which might have been interfering with a way how some of the addons handle this. (And yes, mostly these weird order reports stem from addon bugs unfortunately.) — But I don't see anything recent about the ordering or logic of the "related" ones per se.
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