Make Firefox open new tabs next to current tab instead of last tab
Mozilla Firefox by default opens links in the last tab in the tab bar if you open a link in a new tabĀ and if you have too many tabs open then it could be really annoying to browse to the end of the tab bar, I came across two Firefox extensions for changing this behavior and both are compatible with Firefox 3.0.1
First is called Next Tab which adds a “Open link next to current tab” option to your right click context menu so that you can easily open your desired link in a new tab next to the current tab, this is a very small and simple extension which gets the job done.
The second one is called Tabs Open Relative which changes the default behavior of firefox so that it opens every link in a new tab next to the current tab so that in can work with the links you open with the middle click but that isn’t what you always want to do.
It also changes the behavior for new tabs so that they open next to current tab but if you want to disable that the extension developer has given the instructions for that:
If you don’t want new tabs to be affected, go to about:config (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config for more info) and disable the preference “extensions.tabsopenrelative.includenewtabs”.
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TabMixPlus is also easily configurable to do this - and a bunch of other good stuff.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
Why don’t I see “Open link next to tab” in my Firefox browser?
^did you install the “next tab” extension for firefox?
Thanx for the post
Really useful. Didn’t think of looking for this type of add-on although at times it annoyed me when the tab opens at the farthest end of all the tabs.
i installed Next Tab and its working fine
Tell me how to add the “next tab” extension? I don’t know about it
I fig out
Ok Great!