Tabs Open Relative

I mentioned last week in the Thoughts: Chrome Not Importing Fx Settings post that Chrome opens a new tab just to the right of the current tab.

I clicked on a link in an email and Chrome opened this link in a new tab right next to my Windows Live Mail instead of the end of the tab bar. I am sure this is possible with Firefox 3 with one of the tab extensions, but it is nice to see Chrome does this by default.

Turns out, the Tabs Open Relative extension does just that. So when opening a link into a new tab, the tab opens to the right of the current tab instead of at the end of the tab bar.

Tabs Open Relative is about 5 KB, publicly available via AMO and works with Firefox 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1a1pre

News Source: Mozilla Links

4 Responses to “Tabs Open Relative”


  1. 1 Havvy Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 8:23 AM

    It’s also one of my most-needed extensions;

  2. 2 marsbiker Friday, September 12, 2008 at 5:32 AM

    What got really on my nerves was, that opening of new tabs would also result in them being to the right of my current tab. But i found out that you can disable that feature by setting “extensions.tabsopenrelative.includenewtabs” to false.


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