Firefox 3.6 Tab Opening Behaviour
I just updated to Firefox 3.6, yay! It took me approx. 30 seconds before I wanted to stab myself because they’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’re viewing, rather than at the end of the tab bar.
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…
Anyway, if you want your Firefox 3.6 tab opening behaviour to be the same as Firefox 3.5, do this:
- Type about:config in the address bar
- Close the warning about screwing up your install
- Search for “browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent”
- Double click it to change it to “false”.
Voila! Your tabs are back to normal. No need to even restart.
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22 January 2010, 6:52 pmjgg:
Genius! I was banging my head against the keyboard for a week now. That new behaviour was driving me crazy Thanks a million!!
5 February 2010, 11:47 amJeff:
Its been driving me crazy too. I was even thinking about going back to version 3.5. THANK YOU!!!!
22 February 2010, 10:52 amsteve:
thanks for this… was doing my head in!
23 February 2010, 11:29 amblue:
I cannot tell you how much I love you right now! I was about to pull my hair out or go back to the previous version… Now if only I can figure out how to make my bookmark window infinitely resizable like it was way back in FF 2.x
(I use bookmarks a lot, and I used to squeeze them down til they were very narrow and a scroll bar would appear at the bottom — then I could move them over so I could still see them… now the window only goes part way down, and I can’t shift the bookmarks over to the left, so there’s this big empty white space to the left of my bookmarks, that doesn’t give me info.) Since I work on a laptop, space is at a premium… If someone could tell me how to do that and still keep a modern, secure browser, I’d be their slave forever! hehe…
Anyway, thank you so much for helping me fix tabbing hell. That made me so annoyed. The last time I was this annoyed at FF, I downloaded Opera, but I hate that almost as much as IE. Why is it that FF seems to think we want things like Microsux IE? They keep making the product more like IE, meanwhile, IE’s finally figured out it needs to be more like FF… which it really does need to be… FF is doing what Netscape did when it was dying… ‘improving’ all the good stuff out of the program.
Peace, Thank You!
Blue
24 February 2010, 4:16 amDavid Heath:
thanks, that was starting to piss me off too…
8 March 2010, 4:34 pmChris:
Absolutely brilliant! I have just spent the best part of two hours trying to figure out the problem. To whoever changed the default in the first place: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
12 March 2010, 1:10 pm