Comments on: Firefox 3.6 Tab Opening Behaviour

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:36:58 +0000

Thank you! Sometimes it even seemed like tabs would open in the middle if pages hadn’t loaded all the way.. so disorienting.

@Mike
In the about:config page, scroll down a few more to “browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose” and change it to false. Now when you close a tab, firefox will select the tab to the right.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:01:52 +0000

That’s amazing. Something else that has changed in FF 3.6 is that when you close a tab, FF selects the tab left-adjacent to it. FF 3.5 used to select the tab right-adjacent to it.

Anyone know how to switch that back?

I can’t even understand why anyone would even want this behavior. You open a page, you middle-click a bunch of links, then you step to the right tab, read, and close, hoping to move on to the next opened tab. instead you’re back to the parent tab – or, if you’ve already closed it – to an unrelated tab to the left. wtf?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:10:38 +0000

Absolutely brilliant! I have just spent the best part of two hours trying to figure out the problem. To whoever changed the default in the first place: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

By: David Heath

David Heath — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:34:21 +0000

thanks, that was starting to piss me off too…

By: blue

blue — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:16:55 +0000

I cannot tell you how much I love you right now! I was about to pull my hair out or go back to the previous version… Now if only I can figure out how to make my bookmark window infinitely resizable like it was way back in FF 2.x

(I use bookmarks a lot, and I used to squeeze them down til they were very narrow and a scroll bar would appear at the bottom — then I could move them over so I could still see them… now the window only goes part way down, and I can’t shift the bookmarks over to the left, so there’s this big empty white space to the left of my bookmarks, that doesn’t give me info.) Since I work on a laptop, space is at a premium… If someone could tell me how to do that and still keep a modern, secure browser, I’d be their slave forever! hehe…

Anyway, thank you so much for helping me fix tabbing hell. That made me so annoyed. The last time I was this annoyed at FF, I downloaded Opera, but I hate that almost as much as IE. Why is it that FF seems to think we want things like Microsux IE? They keep making the product more like IE, meanwhile, IE’s finally figured out it needs to be more like FF… which it really does need to be… FF is doing what Netscape did when it was dying… ‘improving’ all the good stuff out of the program.

Peace, Thank You!

Blue

By: steve

steve — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:45 +0000

thanks for this… was doing my head in!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:52:12 +0000

Its been driving me crazy too. I was even thinking about going back to version 3.5. THANK YOU!!!!

By: jgg

jgg — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:47:26 +0000

Genius! I was banging my head against the keyboard for a week now. That new behaviour was driving me crazy Thanks a million!!

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