Opening New Firefox Tabs

Open tabs in Firefox the old way

If you’ve upgraded your copy of Firefox recently you might have noticed that suddenly new tabs open right next to the page you’re viewing. In previous versions of Firefox new tabs opened at the end of the list.

My good buddy Damien found a way to make Firefox behave the way it did before the upgrade.

  1. Open a new tab and type: about:config (in the browser address bar)
  2. In filter, search for: browser.tabs
  3. Double click ‘browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent’ so that it goes from True to False.
  4. Restart FireFox.

Sweet!

There are 2 comments on this post

  1. avatar
    April 7th, 2010 @ 11:35 am
    @reduxdamien

    I would feel bad if I didn’t give a shout out to the source. @drunkenbatman of drunkenblog.com had told me about it.

  2. avatar
    April 7th, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
    Sean

    Thank you!!!! I was annoyed by this change (though apparently not enough to search for a solution) Much appreciated, guys.

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