When you open a link in a new tab, there's a high likelihood that it's related to the previous tab, when you Ctrl+T, it's highly likely that it isn't. Inserting unrelated tabs into the middle of a grouping is generally dissatisfying (e.g. inserting between the Mail, Mail, Reader, Calendar that people keep on the left).
It's a fine line - different people have different expectations, but the current behavior is what we found fit best after trying a whole bunch of different behaviors. I think in your case your 'new tab' is related to your current task more frequently than others. Interesting, though; our 'duplicate tab' function opens to the right of the current tab strip, but the 'search for' context menu item opens the search in a far-right tab. You could always try it in a local client and see - I'd be interested to see how you find it. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any reason that new tabs a user opens (i.e. control-t) open up at > the end of the bar rather than next to their current tab? It took me a > while to warm up to it, but now I really like that links I open in a new tab > are placed next to my current tab. So much so, that it's now bothering me > when tabs I create go to the far side. > It seems like they should probably be the same from a consistency > standpoint. In addition, about half the time I'm opening a new tab, it's > related to the current tab I'm in (i.e. doing a search on a term I saw, > opening a second gmail window, etc). Even when the new window isn't > related, I often look for the new tab to the right of my current tab. > Has this been discussed? Is there a good reason for the current behavior? > J > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
