Change Behavior of Closing Tabs

[bazokajoe_2k]

It would be great if when I closed a tab, it went back to the last active tab instead of the one above it in the tab list.

Super duper, it would be.

[Handycam]

I agree. Even as an option in prefs.

[Forrest]

Same here.

[gray49]

Count me in...

[zottel]

Me, too. :-)

[bazokajoe_2k]

It's unanimous!! I expect to see it in Beta 3 ;)

Just kidding, but it would be a really nice feature that (although I know nothing about programming) seems like it should be relatively easy to implement.

This wasn't as much of an issue when we couldn't have a single window mode. But now that we're opening new tabs from links from lord knows which tab, it would be really nice to go back where I came from when I close a tab.

Omni: Any chance of this making it in anytime soon?

[NickM]

I agree. Even as an option in prefs.
Don't settle for second best and lots of useless preferences. "Last active tab" is clearly the correct behavior!

[NickM]

Actually, I take that back. What about when you go to a site, open an bunch of links in tabs, and then read and close them one by one?

[bazokajoe_2k]

Actually, I take that back. What about when you go to a site, open an bunch of links in tabs, and then read and close them one by one?

Yeah but what happens more often? Personally, I'd click a link, read it, close it, be back at my page and then click the next one.

Why eat up more memory than you have to?

[Forrest]

Actually, I take that back. What about when you go to a site, open an bunch of links in tabs, and then read and close them one by one?

That's a good point. Maybe there should be two close buttons on the tabs. A second button, maybe something like a ^ would be used to close the tab and go to the one directly above it. Whereas closing with the X would go to the last viewed tab.

[kga1978]

no no no no, we don't want this "default Winblows behaviour". I know many people, including myself, who will go to a news-site and open up all the stories in new tabs. You now want to go through the tabs one by one, and not always come back to the previously selected tab!

What I would like however (as mentioned in a different post), is that when a new tab is selected as "a new window", then closing this tab will put you back to the previously selected tab. This is currently the behaviour in Firefox and I really like that (and it is about the only thing I like about that browser.....).

[JKT]

You folks need to use Tab Mix Plus add-on for Firefox. New links open next to the "parent" tab and go back to that parent when closed. If you open a set of links from the same parent, they open in succession next to each other (starting from the parent), but closing them you go to the prior daughter tab rather than jumping back to the parent each time. Works well enough.

[kga1978]

Actually what is described is default behaviour with the newest version of FF . Still a sluggish browser though - although I really like the way it handles tabs and FAST

[JKT]

Ah, I hadn't used FF 2 in its plain vanilla configuration. IIRC, FF1.5 didn't do this without TMP.

[Handycam]

Also Fx2 allows re-ordering of tabs, and a great "Recently closed tabs" menu item.

[nickbec]

I was recently pointed towards Omniweb after getting more and more fed up with the amount of stuff I didn't use in Opera. It's a great browser, but I really want this option for closing tabs, I'd love to switch completely to Omniweb, but this and a couple of other features mean I probably won't any time soon.
Nick