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Firefox to Adopt Chrome's Tab Ordering Feature By jasongoldberg

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Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jan 13, 2009

Summary

One of the best features in Google's Chrome browser is the way it handles tabs. In Chrome, when you click a link, the tab that opens appears to the immediate right of the current tab. It may seem like a small thing, but when you have so many tabs open in Firefox that they spill off the sides of the screen, having to scroll to the end to see the new web page is annoying and inefficient.

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According to Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox at Mozilla, the Firefox web browser will soon be changing the way in which new tabs are opened. Like in Chrome, new tabs in Firefox will open to the immediate right of the tab you are on. If multiple tabs are opened in the background from links clicked, they will open sequentially to the right of each other. New tabs created by the "New Tab" button or the keyboard shortcut will still open at the end of the tab strip, as they do now.

Says Beltzner, the goal is to have tabs that are related grouped together. The change will be landing on the trunk shortly and then they will decide whether or not to take it to Firefox 3.1. (Ple

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Comments (3)

Coldacid,

Jan 13, 2009

That'll mean I'll need one less extension than I'm currently using, when 3.1 comes out the door.