Default behavior on close tab should be left instead of right
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Description
When you open a new tab, it opens to the right of the current tab. When you close the new tab, one should expect to revert back to the old tab but instead, it goes to one tab right of the original tab it was opened from. Not a bug per se but the default behavior I suggested is more natural for most workflows and very easy to fix.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing Vimium's tab-close handling and the default tab-selection behavior; the issue does not name a file or test. Confirm how a newly opened tab is related to its original tab, then verify that closing it returns to the original tab rather than the tab to its right.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100