Changing Tab Focus Behavior

I have two machines running Firefox 4.0. Both have Tab Mix Plus installed. Each exhibits a different behavior when opening multiple tabs.
To open multiple tabs, I simply highlight a number of links on a page, right click and select Open Links in New Tabs from the menu
In both cases this action results in each link opening in a new tab. In both cases the focus stays on the current tab.
However on one machine if I change focus by clicking on the tab next to the current one and then close it, the focus goes back to the first tab.
On the other machine if I change focus by clicking on the tab next to the current one and then close it, the focus moves to the tab immediately to the right of the closed tab.. This is the desired behavior.
What do I need to change on the first machine to get it to behave like the second one?
I tried doing a visual compare of the configuration setting on each machine both for Firefox and Tab Mix Plus but couldn't find any difference in settings.

You can set all other controls not to be tabbed through and the tab control to have its pages tabbed through. That way, when you use tab, only the tab control's pages will be on the tabbing list. This, however, is probably less straightforward.
I'm not sure what's the problem with the method you outlined. In most cases, if you want something to happen, you will have to code it. This appeares to be one of those cases. You can make a subVI to do the tabbing for you, if you don't want to have to code all of it in your VI. Pass the reference of the tab control into the VI after you detect the event and use that to decide whether to increase or decrease the tab value. Be sure to cycle the number back to the first page when it reaches the end.
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