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How to always open tabs at the end of the tabbar in Firefox

Martin Brinkmann
Jan 24, 2010
Updated • Feb 17, 2015
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A change in the default behavior is often problematic for many users. Firefox 3.6 introduced a change in the way new tabs are opened.

Before Firefox 3.6, tabs were always opened at the end of the browser's tabbar which mean that you always new where to find them.

This changed with the launch of Firefox 3.6 which modified the behavior based on the source for the new tab. A new tab is still opened at the end of the tabbar, which happens for instance when you hit Ctrl-T to open a new blank tab in the browser.

If you follow a link from an existing tab however, that link is opened next to that tab and not at the end. This happens when you middle-click on a link for example or right-click on links and select to open the destination in a new tab in Firefox.

That feels like inconsistent behavior to some Firefox users. Those who prefer the old way of opening new tabs (all at the end of the tab toolbar) can make Firefox change that behavior to the default behavior of previous Firefox versions.

The changes are made on the about:config configuration window. Simply enter about:config in the Firefox address bar to open it. You may need to accept a warning message displayed to you if you never opened it before in the browser.

open tab behavior in Firefox

Now filter for the term tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent.

The default value of the parameter is true which simply means that related tabs are opened after the current one and not at the end.

A double-click on the row changes the value to false indicating that related tabs will from then on be opened at the end of the tabbar just like new tabs.

If you want to reset the value at any time repeat the process and make sure it is set to true in the end.

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How to always open tabs at the end of the tabbar in Firefox
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How to always open tabs at the end of the tabbar in Firefox
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Firefox opens related links in tabs next to the tab they were spawned from. Find out how to change the behavior to open tabs always at the end of the tab bar.
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  1. gilhad said on September 28, 2012 at 11:13 am
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    Thank you, this made middleclick usable agaqin!

  2. bikers said on November 22, 2010 at 9:21 am
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    Finally I can get rid of Tab Mix Plus which causes so much troubles on Firefox CPU usage. I actually prefer the other way and found that Ubuntu disables that!

  3. ERICH ELSTER said on February 20, 2010 at 10:48 am
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    Yay!! thanks!! I hated that

  4. Anonymous said on February 5, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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    thank you wish developers would stop changing things everyone is used to for many years. wish would spend time making faster, faster, faster instead of feature feature feature

  5. archer said on January 28, 2010 at 10:42 pm
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    tab mix plus has that option and many more. awesome extension

  6. Ron said on January 28, 2010 at 10:14 pm
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    Any add-on for FF 3.5 to open a new tab next to the tab containing the link ?
    (like in FF 3.6)

  7. Dave said on January 27, 2010 at 3:22 pm
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    Don’t know how recently this updated, but TMP is now 3.6 compatible. And does this by default.

  8. archer said on January 24, 2010 at 9:01 pm
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    try the combo of verttabbar, faviconizetab, and tabmixplus

    awesome setup, especially for small notebooks, macbooks, netbooks

    1. Ben said on January 25, 2010 at 7:32 am
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      Thanks! I thought I was going crazy!

  9. Trevor said on January 24, 2010 at 7:10 pm
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    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  10. paul(us) said on January 24, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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    i have tried it with the (new) add-on Tab Utilities 0.5 and i have also tried it follow the lead from the how to geek with his new checkCompatibility trick way (Make Your Extensions Work with Firefox 3.6) but now dice. After forcing the tab mix plus add on the add on does not work correctly.

  11. paul(us) said on January 24, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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    For me the same like mindmaze wrought and i am really missing main tab mix plus add on. Do you know any add on like tab mix plus which is working with Mozilla Firefox 3.6?

    1. Martin said on January 24, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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      Cannot you force compatibility?

  12. mindmaze said on January 24, 2010 at 12:50 pm
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    Thanks!
    This was starting to get on my nerves.

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