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When I have many tabs open, & I am viewing the 1st one in the row of tabs, how can I make ctrl+T open tab next to it instead of down at the end of all the tabs?

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If, for example, I have 50 tabs open, and I happen to be working on the very first tab out of the long row of tabs (tab #1 out of 50 total tabs)....if I suddenly need a new tab next to the one I'm on so that I can do something else related to what I am doing on my current tab's website, pushing ctrl+t opens up the new tab clear down at the very end of the long row of tabs (i.e., the new tab would be tab #51). How can I make the new tab open up right beside the one I'm working on at the moment?

If, for example, I have 50 tabs open, and I happen to be working on the very first tab out of the long row of tabs (tab #1 out of 50 total tabs)....if I suddenly need a new tab next to the one I'm on so that I can do something else related to what I am doing on my current tab's website, pushing ctrl+t opens up the new tab clear down at the very end of the long row of tabs (i.e., the new tab would be tab #51). How can I make the new tab open up right beside the one I'm working on at the moment?

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You would need an extension to achieve this

You can look at this extension:

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Something like that seems that it would solve my issue, but it currently is not available for Firefox 25.0....  :-( Thanks for alerting me to this type of potential solution, though, and I will keep looking for any future update to this extension (as well as a few other very similar extensions which are also not available for Firefox 25.0).

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Tab Utilities is an abandoned extension. Never updated beyond Firefox 19.0, last update was in Dec 2012.

Another developer "took-over" that project - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&p=13039631#p13039631 - in August.

Tab Utilities Phoenix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-utilities-phoenix/