Closing a tab switches to back to the wrong one
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@t3rm1 said in Closing a tab switches to back to the wrong one:
Follow these steps:
Open tab A (eg. google.de)
Open a link from tab A in a new tab (called B )
Go back to tab A and open another link in a new tab (this tab is now between A and B, called A1)
Close tab A1. This will open tab B instead of tab A.Can you confirm this?
I can confirm this.
@t3rm1 said in Closing a tab switches to back to the wrong one:
The question is: Why would it make sense to open another tab instead of the previous one when closing a tab.
Tab B was the last tab that was opened, so Opera switches back to it.
As for A1 being between A and B, tha's the default "open tab next to active tab" behavior. You can change that by turning off
opera://settings/userInterface?search=cycle%20tabs%20in%20most%20recently%20used%20orderNote though that if you turn that off, you might have to close all tabs to test as Opera might get confused.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
In Opera 12's tab settings, you have 3 choices for what happens when you close a tab. You had "activate the last active tab", "activate the next tab", and "Activate the first tab opened from the current tab". Also in Opera 12, you could choose to open a tab at the end of the tab bar or next to the current tab. There was also a setting for the order of how tabs were cycled.
Vivaldi has similar close options. It has a checkbox for "always activate related tab" and then a close order option with the choice of "Activate in recently used order", "Activate left in tab order", and "Activate right in tab order".
Point being, there are a bunch of ways to handle closing of tabs. Opera just needs the options so users can pick the way they want.
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