Reviews for Select After Closing Current
Select After Closing Current by jingyu9575
Review by Firefox user 14295439
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14295439, 6 years agoThis addon lets you correct one of Firefox's bigger usability problems: the unpredictability of which tab will be selected when you close a tab. It also does so with the minimum necessary permissions, which in an age of spying browser addons is something to appreciate.
Firefox keeps some internal info about which tabs are 'children' of 'parent' tabs, and depending whether you have clicked around in the tab bar or not, may choose to activate some 'peer' of the closing tab rather than one adjacent to the closing tab. But this information is not communicated to the user at all, the tab bar appears to be just a list of tabs! I'm fairly technically literate and I find this behaviour stunningly confusing, I can only imagine how frustrating this must be to less technical users. I'm not even sure that this description of how it works is 100% right, and I've spent some time looking into it!
In my opinion, Firefox's closing order for tabs without parent-child relationships (selecting the tab to the right) is also wrong. When you open a new tab, it is opened on the right. It only makes sense that closing a tab would select the tab to the left, taking you back toward where you began. The fault doesn't lie entirely with Firefox though, this is also Chrome's behaviour, and the Firefox team must feel much pressure to keep their interface consistent with the competition to make switching easy.
But I digress. These are small user interface issues, but minor details like this can have major impact on the user experience. Kudos to the author for making this extension.
The only flaw is that, when configured to select the tab to the left, there is a brief flash where the tab to the right is selected before switching to the tab to the left. I presume that this is due to a limitation of the current extension API, where the extension reacts to the tab closed event after the tab is gone and Firefox has already made its default next tab selection, and that nothing can be done to fix it. Unfortunate, but not a deal breaker!
Users who care about tab opening behaviour are also encouraged to check out an about:config option added in Firefox 60, which positions new tabs to the right of the opening tab (instead of to the right of the current peer tabs, or at the end of the tab strip entirely):
browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent = true
Firefox keeps some internal info about which tabs are 'children' of 'parent' tabs, and depending whether you have clicked around in the tab bar or not, may choose to activate some 'peer' of the closing tab rather than one adjacent to the closing tab. But this information is not communicated to the user at all, the tab bar appears to be just a list of tabs! I'm fairly technically literate and I find this behaviour stunningly confusing, I can only imagine how frustrating this must be to less technical users. I'm not even sure that this description of how it works is 100% right, and I've spent some time looking into it!
In my opinion, Firefox's closing order for tabs without parent-child relationships (selecting the tab to the right) is also wrong. When you open a new tab, it is opened on the right. It only makes sense that closing a tab would select the tab to the left, taking you back toward where you began. The fault doesn't lie entirely with Firefox though, this is also Chrome's behaviour, and the Firefox team must feel much pressure to keep their interface consistent with the competition to make switching easy.
But I digress. These are small user interface issues, but minor details like this can have major impact on the user experience. Kudos to the author for making this extension.
The only flaw is that, when configured to select the tab to the left, there is a brief flash where the tab to the right is selected before switching to the tab to the left. I presume that this is due to a limitation of the current extension API, where the extension reacts to the tab closed event after the tab is gone and Firefox has already made its default next tab selection, and that nothing can be done to fix it. Unfortunate, but not a deal breaker!
Users who care about tab opening behaviour are also encouraged to check out an about:config option added in Firefox 60, which positions new tabs to the right of the opening tab (instead of to the right of the current peer tabs, or at the end of the tab strip entirely):
browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent = true
137 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by thereddog, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Webdev Tory, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andre Bell, 8 months ago2024-04-01 works perfectly to open tab to the left after I made the drop down change in the options panel. Thank you
- Rated 5 out of 5by usernamethen, a year agoThis is such a useful adon for us that searches the internet all day! thanks so much, i think this should be done in the firefox config but here we are.
- Rated 4 out of 5by DimTim, a year agoNice extension, thanks! :) But I can't figure it out how to use "Position" and "Relation" options. For example, how should I set it up to: 1) when closing current, select parent tab; 2) if no parent tab exists, select left tab; 3) if the tab to close is leftmost, select right tab?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12356330, a year agoFabulous extension. I initially had trouble getting it to work until I removed a tab unloader extension which must have conflicted.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 千澪十梦, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by peterhil, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lucasd, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 70599, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 鱼yhb, 2 years ago浏览时习惯先用后台标签页打开，后面再一个个看，这个扩展能自定义看完一个标签页并关闭后的处理逻辑，解决了一大痛点，五星好评！！！
另外，提个建议，参数配置能支持同步吗？或者至少支持导入、导出功能？ - Rated 5 out of 5by Bagelbat, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17452558, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kokobaby, 3 years ago谢谢朋友！你拯救了我的火狐。自从火狐变为量子版后，标签操作真是一言难尽！你这个插件简直牛爆了。希望以后能开发关于开启标签的相关扩展。比如《始终在后台开启新标签》《书签用后台新标签打开》《地址栏输入的网址由后台新标签打开》等等。谢谢朋友！
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ran, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oldfag, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14684176, 3 years agoExcellent add on but finding it hard to configure it to use the way I want.
Could anyone suggest please how I achieve the following?
If I have a tab open and from which if it spawns another focused tab (when using drag/drop links or drag text searching), then after closing it, it should focus the last tab (original parent tab). If I select tab manually, then after closing it, it should select the right adjacent tab. - Rated 4 out of 5by mr. sparkle, 4 years agoDoesn't work correctly if you're using UnloadTabs. You can use another addon called "Unload Tab from Context Menu" and then it's fine.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ray., 4 years agoNot sure what happened but with the latest stable Firefox (88.0.1 ), I had to switch the mode to v1 for the add-on to work. Mixed and v4 doesn't work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15690182, 4 years agoIt has a conflict with extension UnloadTabs, which needs to be disabled if installed. Afterwards, this extension works according to settings.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Y Emre, 4 years ago