{"id":129,"date":"2010-01-21T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-01-21T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:35:49","slug":"firefox-3-6-tab-opening-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2010\/01\/firefox-3-6-tab-opening-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3.6 Tab Opening Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated to Firefox 3.6, yay! It took me approx. 30 seconds before I wanted to stab myself because they&#8217;ve made the default tab opening behaviour so that when you middle click a link it opens in the tab next to the tab you&#8217;re viewing, rather than at the end of the tab bar. <\/p>\n<p>This probably pleases a lot of people.. I know people with extensions to do that. But it drives me crazy. I know my new tabs are supposed to be at the end, because all my tabs are in a certain order, and most of them I never close&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2010\/01\/firefox-3-6-tab-opening-behaviour\/firefoxtabs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs.png\" data-orig-size=\"1680,26\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"firefoxtabs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs-300x4.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs-1024x15.png\" src=\"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs-1024x15.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"firefoxtabs\" width=\"1024\" height=\"15\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs-1024x15.png 1024w, https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs-300x4.png 300w, https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/firefoxtabs.png 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you want your Firefox 3.6 tab opening behaviour to be the same as Firefox 3.5, do this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Type about:config in the address bar<\/li>\n<li>Close the warning about screwing up your install<\/li>\n<li>Search for &#8220;browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Double click it to change it to &#8220;false&#8221;. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Voila! Your tabs are back to normal. No need to even restart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated to Firefox 3.6, yay! It took me approx. 30 seconds before I wanted to stab myself because they&#8217;ve made the default tab opening behaviour so that when you middle click a link it opens in the tab next to the tab you&#8217;re viewing, rather than at the end of the tab bar. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2010\/01\/firefox-3-6-tab-opening-behaviour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox 3.6 Tab Opening Behaviour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}