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    • rejzor
      rejzor last edited by

      Why is it automatically assumed one would only want to close all the tabs to the right from current tab? I've often came to a point where I had tons of tabs open, but I wanted to close them to the left of currently active tab. Why is this not an option available to the user?

      When is this useful? When you for example open several image galleries and bunch of individual images from each of these galleries. But then you want to close all the tabs with galleries that remained on the left and only leave opened images on the right, because you only need images in the end. Currently, this is not possible because "Close tabs to the left" doesn't exist as a function.

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      • tiikuri
        tiikuri @rejzor last edited by

        @rejzor said in Close tabs to the left:

        Why is it automatically assumed one would only want to close all the tabs to the right from current tab? I've often came to a point where I had tons of tabs open, but I wanted to close them to the left of currently active tab. Why is this not an option available to the user?

        When is this useful? When you for example open several image galleries and bunch of individual images from each of these galleries. But then you want to close all the tabs with galleries that remained on the left and only leave opened images on the right, because you only need images in the end. Currently, this is not possible because "Close tabs to the left" doesn't exist as a function.

        It's really strange this is not a feature yet. We need to close the tabs to the left just as often as we do to the right.

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        • newworldman
          newworldman @rejzor last edited by

          @rejzor yes, you were able to do this with the old Tab Mix Plus in Firefox and it's something I miss in that browser.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @tiikuri last edited by

            @tiikuri said in [Close tabs to the left](/post/

            It's really strange this is not a feature yet. We need to close the tabs to the left just as often as we do to the right.

            There are opera extensions, but I prefer those one with better icon:

            • Close others tabs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/close-others/jlkpafdhmdhiahnmcmjejmlidghcobeb
            • Close tabs to the right: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/close-right/npemobdkdcknhfaiioheeffincgpgafj
            • Close tabs to the left: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/close-left/gdpopcppmglkiodhjobnjbogcoacgkoa
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            • donca
              donca last edited by

              I would really like this feature built in.

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              • mrx23dot
                mrx23dot last edited by

                Why is this isn't done yet??
                US+EU people process stuff from left to right, and we want to discard stuff on left side.

                This worked great in Opera 12..

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                • Johnren
                  Johnren @rejzor last edited by

                  @rejzor I have never found a use for closing tabs on the right - newer workflow is set to right - new tabs open to the right I don't understand who uses this function?

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                  • newworldman
                    newworldman @Johnren last edited by

                    @johnren I have several other browsers installed on my desktop - Edge, Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi. Only Vivaldi has "close tabs to the left" unfortunately. I don't have Firefox to check that but I bet it's the same. 😞

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                    • mrx23dot
                      mrx23dot @newworldman last edited by

                      @newworldman Looks like most browsers are built for Hebrews, who read from right to left, and close tabs on the right..

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                      • newworldman
                        newworldman @mrx23dot last edited by

                        @mrx23dot 🙂 Interesting how they've all gone lockstep on this except for Vivaldi!

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                        • mrx23dot
                          mrx23dot @newworldman last edited by

                          @newworldman I think they simply copy each other (or code base), firefox has both, but they are in a submenu..

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