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9 Responses to "Safari’s Tab Behavior"

1. | Reply Simone Manganelli
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 7:40pm #
   

   I'm using Safari right now, and mine seems to select the tab to the right if you close the current tab in a series of tabs. (Of course, when you close the current tab, the others shift over, so the selected tab still appears in the same place as before.) Here's a movie to make sure my explanation isn't misunderstood: http://homepage.mac.com/simx/.Movies/Safari-tabs-behavior.mov

   So, no, I don't think its your imagination, but I'm curious as to how you got Safari to work the other way around. (I recently bought a new comp, and it uses the above behavior.)

   -- Simone

2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 7:45pm #
   

   Yeah, that's what I would call selecting the tab to the right. I can get that behavior as well, but try this:Open apple.com.Command-click several of the links in the menu at the top of the website (like "QuickTime" and "Hot News" and "Education") so that they open in background tabs.Click on one of the middle tabs you just created to view the page, then close that tab.When I do those steps, I am dumped back at the first tab - apple.com - regardless of how many tabs lie to the left or right of the tab I close.

   It's like Safari is trying to be helpful, but is instead being very, very, very confusing. I'll create a video if necessary and if others can't see this behavior.

3. | Reply Simone Manganelli
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 8:01pm #
   

   I can't replicate that behavior Erik -- a video would be good. 🙂 I still get the behavior as with the movie I created; after selecting one of those new background tabs and then closing it, Safari still selects the tab to the right.

   -- Simone

4. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 8:12pm #
   

   Here's the movie: http://iacas.org/asm/tabs.mov. You'll note I use cmd-W to close the tabs. The same thing occurs when I click the "X" to close the tabs.

5. | Reply Ryan Dotson
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 8:35pm #
   

   In Saft 8.1.5, a feature to focus the previously-selected tab when you close the current one as added. Check your preferences.

   -R.

6. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 8:48pm #
   

   Yeah, Saft was the cause. In restoring most of my prefs, just about everything worked… but that got it. Thanks. Case closed.

   I wonder if anyone uses that feature in Saft. It annoyed the crap out of me.

7. | Reply Radu Dutzan
   Posted 18 Oct 2005 at 10:31pm #
   

   Yeah, it was pretty annoying for me to, even when I tried to like it, I just couldn't, so I just turned it off.

8. | Reply Geoff
   Posted 19 Oct 2005 at 8:32am #
   

   I've been annoyed by the same issues and while I figured it was Saft, Stand or some setting I could change somewhere I never could find it. Now that you pointed out that Saft was the culprit I looked again and there, right in front of me, was the option to uncheck. Woo! Thanks.

9. | Reply Tomas Pihl
   Posted 19 Oct 2005 at 4:54pm #
   

   It was me that suggested this feature to Hao Li. Mainly because I fell in love with an extension called FLST (Focus Last Selected Tab) for Firefox.

   You don't like it? I can't live without it as I often find myself sitting with loads of tabs and if I 'open link in new tab' from one of the tabs I have open and active, it makes sense to get back to the last selected tab once you close the one you're currently have active.