.. title: Insert New Tabs In Firefox After Current Tab
.. slug: firefox-tabs-insertAfterCurrent
.. date: 2019-07-10 21:33:01 UTC+02:00
.. tags: firefox
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The default behavior of Firefox opening new tabs at the end of the
list is annoying me for a while now.  This is distracting me, when I
open a new tab correlated to the currently active tab.  With many open
tabs the resulting distance between the new tab and the previously
active tab makes this difficult without moving the new tab and thus
makes this everyday scenario very difficult to handle efficiently.

Today this frustration increased to a level where I decided it would
make sense to invest some time to find out if there is an easy fix
without too much effort.  Even though a quick web search did not find
the correct solution, it was enough to point me to the "about:config"
section and to use the search box to filter the options for the sub
string "browser.tab".  And sure enough, changing
"browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent" from the default setting of "false"
to "true" as shown in the picture below again allows me to concentrate
on more important things.

.. image:: /images/firefox-tabs-insertAfterCurrent.png
   :alt: Firefox Settings
   :width: 500
   :align: center