Safari Open Windows In New Tab Bug

In Safari when opening a window in a new tab by right clicking on a link. If you have a number of other tabs open to the right of the tab you are opening from then it will usually open the tab to the right of that tab as you are opening a page from the same site. but this does not always happen so I would consider this a bug. It used to be that it always opened it as the last tab which I think works best as you alwys know that it will work like that. The current implementation is just confusing in its inconsistencies.

In the article you linked to it says "But in Safari 5.1, opening a link in a new tab causes it materialize directly to the right of your current tab."
Which is of course the same as Chrome. However in Safari 5.1 it does not always do this, only sometimes and therefore I would call this a bug.

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You're welcome. Glad I could help.
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Hai i am using firefox 3.6.When right clicking on a link and a window opens up, i want it to ask me "Open Link in New tab" first, not second.

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First, you are using a version of Firefox that is very old and outdated. Please update to at least Firefox 3.6.27, or more preferably, update to Firefox 10.0.2. There are lots of bug fixes, security improvements, and much improved performance in Firefox 10.
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