Open all now opens all the bookmarks requested in new tabs rather than reusing the originaltab/windoe and opening the othgers in new tabs. This leaves an extra tab open which did not occur before. Is this the way it is now supposed to work, or a bug?
On previous versions when I open all of one of my groups, the first URL would open in the original window/tab and the rest would open in new tabs. Now with version 8, it opens all in new tabs rather than reusing the original so that I have tabs for each URL + 1.
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That is how it works to make sure that you do not lose already opened tabs if you open a bookmarks folder.
Just close all open tabs via the right-click context menu (Close Other Tabs) of the tab bar.
OK, this has got to be a bug. Otherwise, I would say that the last 3 versions did not undergo any usability testing.
Look, if I have an open window, then go to a bookmark folder with 3 websites and push "Open all in Tabs" it means I am ready to move on to other sites in almost all cases, and want the 3 new tabs to replace the previous open one ( about 99.99% of the time). It used to work that way. Now, almost ALL of THE TIME, I have to go back and close the leftover original open tab (that I am finished with, otherwise I wouldn't have gone on to a new bookmark folder. Get it?).
The advice you give on closing all the open tabs is worthless. You miss the point. They should not still be open to begin with. Safari doesn't work this way, for a reason.
Fix it.
If you open a new window and use Open All in Tabs for a folder of bookmarks, all you'll have is those bookmarks open. If you already have a number of Tabs open and you use Open All in Tabs, the new Tabs being opened will be added to the Tabs that were already opened.
The "point" is that Mozilla changed the way that Open All in Tabs works - like it or not - it's not a Bug or a fault, that is the new intended action. Not every user works the same way, or has the same expectations about how Open All in Tabs should work. Someone filed a Bug to change that action, and it was changed. IMO, the developers should have included a "switch" to allow the user to select the "old way" it was down for long term users who actually prefer the "old way", but they didn't.
I have read that Tab Mix Plus has a preference for the old way it was done.
Check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
Or ask about it at the TMP forum to verify that pref does work that way.
http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/
By what you are saying, then any time you have one or more tabs open, if you open a bookmark, it should open another tab. To me that is ridiculous. If you want it in a new tab, then you should have to open one, not get one forced on you. By not opening in the same tab, in that case, then you are inconsistent with all other cases. Either always open a new tab or always open in the original tab.
"... if you open a bookmark ..."
No, opening a single new bookmark will open in the same tab. My comments were regarding the "Open All in Tabs" feature which appends existing tabs, rather than replacing all but the first tab as used to happened with Firefox a few years ago.
Also, Firefox used to have a hidden pref to have a single bookmark to always open in a new tab, but that is now gone.
I realize opening a bookmark does not open a new tab, what I am saying is that opening in a new tab because it is open all is inconsistent. The first should open in existing tab and the rest in new tabs. The first should be treated just like opening a single bookmark. What makes it even more ridiculous is that that the first tab may be a blank page and it still skips it and opens all in new tabs.