Ok. I have been using IE7 exclusively now for over a month or so. Reason being down there I still like the cleaninness of IE over Firefox. Most web pages target IE first and then anything else.
Due to the above reason I end up having 7-10 tabs in one window of IE. Here the problems start to show. Not problems, but one big problem. Its not a bug, but its an annoying user experience. Take the scenario below:
You have 10 tabs (numbered 1-10 from left to right). You are on tab 1. You click on a link to open it up in a new tab (tab #11). Now tab #11 is active and you read a couple of lines there and you decide to close that tab by right clicking on the #11 tab and select “Close”. Now, I would prefer to see IE show up some intelligence to bring my previous tab as active tab (tab #1). Instead what I get to see now is the last tab in the series (tab #10).
I guess it should be simple enough to remember previous active tab, and an option (somewhere in Tools/Options) to set this switching. I am sure more & more users would like to get back to the previous active tab, instead of the last tab in the series.
Open to discuss this with anyone from the IE7 team who owns this.
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If your quite QWERTY guy, I would rather prefer a quick shift tab that I do in my firefox in situations like you describe.
I agree with Hemant above. The shift + tab works perfectly, but it would be nice to have the intelligence built in to go to the last active tab. This intelligence can be controlled via some global settings under tools/options.
dude, i have been doing multiple tabs in firefox since v1.0 but they have the same problem with closing the last tab and geting the tab beside it instead of the one you were just at
Tumaru,
Thats the point. Why cant the browser have some bit of intelligence in itself, which can be turned on/off via some setting in Preferences.
It sometimes gets annoying when there are lots of tabs opened.
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