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BitFlipper — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:48:18 GMT

Tab grouping is not the same thing. It doesn't act like "Open new tab next to current tab".

If you have tab grouping enabled, and you open multiple tabs from the same site, new tabs will still be added to the end of the current group, and not next to the current, active tab.

So if you go to one site only and open multiple tabs, it acts the same as if "Open new tab next to current tab" (in IE7) is disabled.

I can see how someone that implemented "Tab Groups", but who never really used the "Open next to current" feature might have thought that it was an improvement over "Open next to current", and therefore sadly removed the original functionality.

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Brandon Paddock — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:28:39 GMT

Right, the option still exists. It was renamed to "tab grouping" and is on by default.

If you turn off tab grouping, they won't be grouped (ie. opened next to each other).

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BitFlipper — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:23:09 GMT

If I have grouping enabled then it does the same thing. My version of IE is 8.0.6001.18241.

I am running this on Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1.

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PaoloM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:09:18 GMT

I have whatever version came with my Win7 build from last week. I do have grouping turned on, maybe it's a behaviour that has been fixed since the build you have.

What happens if you enable grouping and then right-click and open a link in a new tab (not middle-click, so we can repro the behaviour I'm seeing)?

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BitFlipper — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:32:56 GMT

That is definitely not what I am seeing. Even "Open in New Tab" on the context menu for me opens it all the way to the right.

Are you also using IE8 Beta 2? Are you using some plugin that might change the default behavior? You might have grouping turned on, although when I had grouping turned on, it still opened the tabs all the way to the right. So I am not sure why it is different for you.

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PaoloM — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:19:37 GMT

I can't middle-click (on a laptop), but if I right click on a link and select "Open in new Tab", the new tab is open just to the right of the current one. I actually don't know how to open them to the right of the list...

Re: Re: Question about IE8 tabs

BitFlipper — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:54:32 GMT

This is what I am talking about. Below is the IE7 tab settings dialog. Notice the "Open new tabs next to the current tab" option is no longer available in IE8.

Re: Re: Question about IE8 tabs

BitFlipper — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:43:21 GMT

1) Open a few tabs from the same website.
2) Go to the leftmost tab.
3) Middle-click on any link inside this web page.
4) Notice that the new tab opens all the way to right, instead of right next to the current tab.

The option to open new tabs right next to the current tab has been removed in IE8. When you have a lot of tabs open, this is really annoying. If you never browsed in this way, it might not make sense why this is useful. If this was the way you always browsed before, removing this functionality is super annoying and reduces productivity while browsing. I tried to get used to the missing functionality but no matter how hard I try, I keep wishing it had not been removed.

Why was it be removed?

Re: Re: Question about IE8 tabs

Go Microsoft !!!!!!! — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:35:10 GMT

from my point of view I can only say that the new TAB of IE8 BETA 2are a bit heavy in OLD PC

Re: Question about IE8 tabs

PaoloM — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:26:43 GMT

I don't understand what you mean. If I open a link in a new tab in IE8, I get a tab just to the right of my current tab.