Left/right tab after closing another tab

[František Horálek]

Could you add an option to choose whether user wants to switch to left or right neighbor tab after closing one?
It irritates me, allways close tab and switch back ;o) This applies when using mostly keyboard, not mouse - i know about middle-mouse button.

Thank you.

[Balderstrom]

This behaviour is annoying. Though I would prefer it to go to the last active tab (which in many cases is to the Left and not the right).

It's most noticeable when you duplicate a tab, do something and then close the newly created tab... the tab to the Right gets activated - and pollutes the directory history in doing so.
(Note: Open new tabs next to current, is enabled)

[JohnFredC]

and pollutes the directory history in doing so.

Correctly stated: "pollutes". Annoying.

A nice feature not currently in TC would be a method to automatically exclude certain tabs and/or folders from the history.

[Balderstrom]

Bump.

++ Please consider this option, Mr.Ghisler.

Thank you.

[MVV]

Agree too. If TC doesn't remember last active tab so let it jump to previous tab instead of next one when current tab is being closed.

[Hacker]

MVV,

let it jump to previous tab instead of next one when current tab is being closed

Only if optional. This really would be counterintuitive for me as Firefox etc. work the other way round.

Roman

[Balderstrom]

Bump.

++ Please consider this option, Mr.Ghisler.

Thank you.

In Opera we have 3 options after closing a Tab:
Activate the last active tab.
Activate the next tab.
Activate the first tab opened tab from current Tab.

I generally need to have it set on #2 ("next"), and have never used the third. With it set to #2 I can control if it's actually Next, or Previous. And change which it should do on-the-fly.

I realize requesting to track the last-active-Tab would probably be a fair-chunk of code and debugging to follow. Whereas the option to allow us, the end-user to decide(1) which direction to close the tab, is NOT a fair-chunk of code, and likely no debugging.






(1) For anyone interested, here's how _I_ decide for opera. Though likely I'm the only one interested -- but that's ok I like my company.

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	XButton1::				
	{
		WinGet, aApp
		;; HackFix :: Opera > 10.10: Broken classNN
		MouseGetPos, xPos1, yPos1, aWin, aControl
		KeyWait, XButton1
		if( GetKeyState("RButton") )
			Toggle( opTabPrev, "opTabPrev" )
		else	
		if(( aControl == "SysTabControl321" ) || xPos1 <= operaTabBarSize - 2 || aApp != aWin )
			Send, #{Tab} ; Start Cycle & Focus on TaskBar
		else
			OperaCloseTab(0, opTabPrev)
	return
	}
	Shift & XButton1::	OperaCloseTab(1, opTabPrev)
}

OperaCloseTab( shiftKey, byRef checkVar )
{
	Do_xBtn("XButton1", "^{w}", checkVar, shiftKey, "^{w}^+{Tab}")
return
}

Do_xBtn( key, cmd, byRef checkVal=0, yesNo=0, cmd2="", toggleVar=0 )
{
	KeyWait, %key%
	Send, % ( checkVal == yesNo ) ? cmd : cmd2
	if( toggleVar )
		Toggle(checkVal)
return
}

Toggle(byRef onOff, displayVar="")
{
	onOff := ( onOff == 0 ) ? 1 : 0
	if( displayVar <> "" )
		MsgBox, ,, %displayVar%: %onOff%, 1
return onOff
}

And what all that mess means is anyones guess!

XButton1 (key above the scrollwheel) closes Opera's Tabs - by default: activating the previous tab. The default can be set to "activate next". In both cases: using the shift key (thumb button) will do the opposite of the default.