The default behavior of Firefox opening new tabs from links had been troubling me for a while .. it was time I tried to do something about it. This wa

Firefox: Always open a New Tab after Current

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2023-01-23 21:30:05

The default behavior of Firefox opening new tabs from links had been troubling me for a while .. it was time I tried to do something about it.

This was one of the those little things in software that bug me, but I don’t start looking for a solution right-away because of reasons like “I am too busy with something else”, or “The bug is not so bad.. let me see if I can live with it”.

But no .. this particular issue with how Firefox dealt with opening new tabs from links was now getting on my nerves.The Issue #

While visiting a page, I typically middle-click on links so that they open in new tabs .. and I do that a lot! And this is the order of where the new tabs would open:

Figure 1: Unexpected order of opening of new tabs opened after each middle-clickIn my view, this behavior is completely wrong!

As you can see above, if I already have a bunch of links open (see the last row where “Tab 1”, “Tab 2” and “Tab 3” are already open), the last opened tab will land up between those tabs and a sea of other previously opened tabs! When you have over a dozen of tabs already open, hunting for the last opened tabs is really annoying.Expected Behavior #

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