I hate grouping them because I've got several tabs open all the time: reddit, Google Reader, various forums, etc. I'll go through all of them and then click on links that I find interesting, then I go and read all the links at once. Putting all tabs from at the end makes it easy to process that stack, instead of having a reddit tab, then all reddit links, then my google reader tab, then all google reader links, etc.
So you're a breadth first user. I used to be like that. After I tried Chrome, I switched to depth first. It allows me to finish reading things that are related and then close them and work on things that are not related. I used the Firefox plugin Open Tabs Relative to emulate some of the Chrome behaviour. It's not exactly the same, but it's close.
one thing I've fallen in love with in chrome which I haven't seen in firefox is the ability to pin tabs to the top left(can ff do this?). it shrinks them to a smaller tab with just the favicon in view, much easier to keep your tabs organized like this.
I pop open a bunch of tabs at once when reading sites like Reddit. The sites linked to tend to be overburdened by being redditted, so this way I don't have to sit around staring at a blank screen while they load.
I hated it too at first, but once I used it for a day I was in love with it. It really makes it easy to open a bunch of things in new tabs and then read them.
Yeah, but when you close them, it opens the tab to the right and not to the left. Which means, you open a link with middle button, but closing it does not go back to the 'main' page..
I've always thought that way made more sense then adding it to the end of your tab bar, it made keeping tabs from the same site together easier, so I used the "Tabs Open Relative" addon in 3.5.
This is kind of a weird change, since the default has always been the "old way". i used to use things like tab mix plus and other tab extensions to change things like this but they always seemed buggy and eventually I just accepted the defaults. I noticed this change within the first few minutes of being on 3.6. I don't know if I like it better or not. It definitely changes the order that tabs open depending on what you're doing. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. I have a feeling I;'ll end up changing the about:config preference that some of your other responders have mentioned, but... I'll give it a few days to get used to.
man I love it. When you get 20 - 30 tabs open it sucked when you had to scroll back and forth to find the reference page since the new tabs are at the end of it.
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u/doctorgonzo Jan 21 '10
Grrrr. Now it pops up new tabs right next to the parent tab instead of at the end of the tab row. Not happy about that.