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Open new tab first by default

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elefthei
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Hi Mozilla forums,

I was thinking that opening a new tab is weird in firefox. By default it opens it next to my current tab and when I change browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = true to be browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false I can get the new tab opened in the end, but can I get the new tab to open as the first tab and switch the context to it? Is there an option for that somewhere? It looks more intuitive to me for managing 20+ tabs, each new tab is like a stack frame, added in the beginning and popped from the beggining and the whole tab bar is a big stack. I don't know if that's helpful for more people but I'd definitely appreciate the option.

Hi Mozilla forums, I was thinking that opening a new tab is weird in firefox. By default it opens it next to my current tab and when I change browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = true to be browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false I can get the new tab opened in the end, but can I get the new tab to open as the first tab and switch the context to it? Is there an option for that somewhere? It looks more intuitive to me for managing 20+ tabs, each new tab is like a stack frame, added in the beginning and popped from the beggining and the whole tab bar is a big stack. I don't know if that's helpful for more people but I'd definitely appreciate the option.

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guigs
guigs
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Not that I know of, but I might be able to help find an add on that can offer a work around:

The other option is a feature in Firefox that switches to a new tab immediately, however this might not be spot on.

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