Firefox question

Vonhelmet · 28 Jul 2009 at 22:58

If I open a link in a tab, go to that tab and read whatever is there, then close the tab, is there any way to get Firefox to send me back to the tab I came from?

asim18 · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:08

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2006/10/firefox-2-tweaks-tab-browsing/

Edit: Hmm, i just tried it and it doesnt work. :\

tolien · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:17

It does it for me by default in 3.5, provided the tab you closed was opened normally (i.e. ctrl-click won't do it).

asim18 · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:26

tolien said:
It does it for me by default in 3.5, provided the tab you closed was opened normally (i.e. ctrl-click won't do it).

It's never done it for me.

Eg. If I click the link in my sig, it opens it in a new tab at the end of the bar.
Then when I close the tab, it doesn't come back to OcUK, which is my first tab.
Instead, it goes to the last tab in the bar.

gillywibble · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:32

^ Same here although the Ctrl-Tab add on makes it less of a problem.

tolien · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:39

asim18 said:
Eg. If I click the link in my sig, it opens it in a new tab at the end of the bar.
Then when I close the tab, it doesn't come back to OcUK, which is my first tab.
Instead, it goes to the last tab in the bar.

In which case I'd suggest you've got some extension (or altered preference) changing that behaviour. It does exactly that in 3.5.1 with a new profile :confused:

It's mostly because of the pref in the page you linked to - browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose is now True by default.

Broken Hope · 29 Jul 2009 at 00:19

You can change the behaviour with tab mix plus, it's under events and tab closing in the options menu.

Vonhelmet · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:21

Broken Hope said:
You can change the behaviour with tab mix plus, it's under events and tab closing in the options menu.

Legend. Cheers.