Comments on: Already switching back to Firefox from Google Chrome

By: eddie

eddie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:22:40 +0000

That thing about Opera annoyed me as well. Thanks for telling me how to fix it! :D

ubuntucat, I don’t know why it didn’t work for you:
Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Tabs -> Under “When Closing tab” change from “Activate last activate tab” to “Activate next tab”.

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:48:17 +0000

I switched back to Firefox because I missed my browser extensions. :p

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:17:09 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, but it’ll still focus on the “save for later” tab, no matter where I put it.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:19:56 +0000

As a case-by-case (but not persistent) fix you might try dragging the “save for later” tab to a different position within the row? Not sure if that would have the desired effect and I know it is not “the right” solution….but more of a “half-assed one”

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:46:38 +0000

I spoke too soon. No, it seems to still have the same annoying behavior. Every time I close a tab, it’ll still go back to my save-for-later tab on the left instead of going to the next tab on the right.

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:05:40 +0000

Awesome, ikt. I couldn’t sworn that option wasn’t available in earlier versions of Opera, but it actually seems (with the limited testing I’ve done) to behave the way I want it to behave. Of course, that’s not the only reason I don’t use Opera, but it’s nice to know I have one less reason not to use it.

By: ikt

ikt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:48:10 +0000

–which is that it always switches back to the last tab I was viewing after I close a tab, regardless of tab positioning.–

eh?

Tools > Preferences > When Closing a Tab > Activate the next tab

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:06:54 +0000

Yeah, but Opera has a different annoying behavior, which is that it always switches back to the last tab I was viewing after I close a tab, regardless of tab positioning.

Sometimes I like to keep a particular tab open for viewing later, and Opera will keep bringing me back to that tab instead of following in the logical sequence of right-to-left-focus from right or left-to-right-focus from left.

And that’s regardless of what settings I choose. Believe me, I’ve tried.

By: KillerSponge

KillerSponge — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:12:26 +0000

Just so you know, Opera, by default, opens tabs at the end of the row. If you don’t like that, you can change it in the preferences so it opens next to the active tab ;)

By: bobplano

bobplano — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:35:34 +0000

I don’t know if it was just me, but it seemed too minimalistic. Do you know how to view a page’s source code? I hadn’t tried it out long, but I couldn’t find that