If you’re a regular user of Firefox (as I have been since way back before 1.0), or ANY OTHER piece of software that has tabs in it, you know that when you open a new tab, it opens all the way at the fucking end (on the right). As of Firefox 3.6 they changed this behavior. I figured that if they made the change a default, they must think that this is a “better” way of doing things, ok, I can adapt and try it out. I’ve been using Firefox for years, so it’ll take me some time to get used to it, no big deal.
Well. Fuck. That. Noise. Today, I’ve officially become sick and tired of this new features since it is a piece of shit for any serious work. The first problem is that is hard to predict. Say you are on Tab A (For the sake of argument, say this is for instructions on how to install something) and open some links into new tab (Ex: Software you need to install in order), say B, C and D. You go check on something in tab B real quick then go back to tab A. Now open another few links from tab A, they are E & F. What tab order would you expect to have? A, B, C, D, E, F. But is that the order your tabs are in? Nope, because they are relative to the tab you are on. Your tab order is A, E, F, B, C, D. This is a fairly simple example, but even an idiot could see how it might be a problem if you have to… say… FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER.
How do you turn off the bat shit features?
- Goto about:config
- Accept the anti-idiot warning
- Find browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent (You can just type in ‘related’ and hit enter)
- Right click on it, and hit Toggle (This will change it from ‘false’ to ‘true’)
Open some tabs, rejoice to lord Jesus that they open in a a logical manner again. Translation: New tabs open on the RIGHT and always on the RIGHT and not wandering through the middle of your tabs like a drunk looking for the shitter.
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Thank you!!
For fucks sake man…. thanks for putting this out there, I just updated, and browsing for the past hour has been fucking chaos!
Quite welcome. I hate when they change “core functionality” on the users.
thou shalt be praised!
thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you very much, I’m amazed Google wasn’t flooded with complaints as it’s taken me 24hrs to find this… even more amazed FF changed to this dumb IE tab behaviour though.
Some people, like my co-writer John, like the change. I mean, I guess it can be ok, especially to newbies. Personally, I’ve been using Firefox since before Firefox existed and there was only Mozilla. So for me, I am very very used to using it the old way.
In the end though, I think it has to do with the number of tabs you open/maintain. Most people don’t have 20+ tabs open, so “relative” open is nice for them. For me…I run at least 20 open on each machine, so “relative” open gets tabs everywhich way. Not fun.
Thank you very very much for this ! I hated this in Internet Explorer and was *very* disappointed to find Firefox copying MS. Sanity is now restored to my browser.
IE Does this? Huh, I’ve never noticed it. Then again I almost never use IE…
Go figure.
That is funny as hell, all of us in the office died laughing! And, subsequently, fixed our fucking tabs!
To be fair, if they hadn’t done this as default, no one would ever have known about this.
Additionally, they are constantly trying to convert over Internet Explorer users, so making the transition easier (by making the current IE behavior the default) does make sense.
Thanks heaps for this info,
I thought I would get use to it as well, however after going over multiple dozens of tabs today, it got insane and I’d had enough.
I think that must be why there was no flooding sooner, it was just that everyone was “we will adapt” and now everyone is hating mozilla for it…
Have Fun!
I don’t hate em for making the change. Change typically is good. It just so happens that this particular change isn’t kosher with some of us. John, my compatriot on the blog, loves it. To each their own.
thankyouthankyou
man, glad i found your post. that was annoying the heck out of me! thanks!
Your wording matches my sentiment. Thanks for the information. I felt confident that there was a preference setting for it but I was too lazy to find it myself.
Why does Chrome also do this ridiculous ordering of tabs??? How has this become the trend??? It mystifies me…
THANKS SO MUCH!!
Actually, they didn’t copy IE. IE did it better. If you select one of the child tabs in IE, then go back to the parent tab and open more children, they continue to open in order (to the right of the most recent child). That I would prefer, but I see no way to do that in firefox yet. Anyone got that working?
Thank you, FF team was about to get a torrent off abuse until I googled “how to turn off shitty ie tab open in firefox”
You sir are a legend!
Thx for the suggestion. The change drove me crazy!
God bless you! That was driving me freakin’ NUTS!!