topic Re: why new tab being created at most right? in Discussions

why new tab being created at most right?

zzzh — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:29:11 GMT

In older versions of firefox, it's created at right side of current tab, which I believe being an advantage to other browsers.

Please restore this, or at least let user have some choices.

Re: why new tab being created at most right?

jscher2000 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:42:43 GMT

There is a pair of settings you can adjust. They aren't on the Settings page so you have to dive into the advanced configuration editor. Here's how:

(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. Please keep in mind that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.

(B) In the search box in the page, type or paste insert and pause while the list is filtered

Firefox should show these two preferences at the top of the list:

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent - default value is false, meaning that in general, new tabs should open at the right end of the tab bar
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent - default value is true, meaning that a link opened in a new tab should open next to the tab that had the link

(C) To ALWAYS open a new tab adjacent to the active tab, for example, when you click the + button, double-click the browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent preference to switch the value from false to true

Success?

Re: why new tab being created at most right?

zzzh — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:00:01 GMT

Cool, it works!

Re: why new tab being created at most right?

zzzh — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:28:52 GMT

Hi, I have another issue, I want to open bookmark on next tab instead of most right tab, how to do that?

BTW: I already did a search in the about:config page for bookmark, but failed to find an item for this.

Re: why new tab being created at most right?

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:12:45 GMT

Maybe this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-right-beside/

Hope it helps.

Re: why new tab being created at most right?

Chef_XD — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:22:30 GMT

If people still have issues with that try the following:
Ctrl+T and also the "+" button on the right side in tab bar still opens a new tab at the most right end of all other tabs.
But if you just click with the right mouse button and left mouse button on first entry "new tab" on every tab you like it opens a new tab on the right next to the tab you clicked on. It doesn´t matter if the tab you clicked on is the one you have actually open. 🙂

需要改进 / needs improvement

gthbvk — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:20:45 GMT

Firefox 新建标签页，不是在当前标签页右侧，跑到所有标签页的右侧，怎么回事？历史记录管理器里，点开一个网址，然后右侧的滚动条一下子跑到最上面，这是怎么回事？

When I open a new tab in Firefox, it is not on the right side of the current tab, but on the right side of all tabs. What's going on? In the history manager, I click on a URL, and the scroll bar on the right side suddenly moves to the top. What's going on?