Open new tab next to current one.

[HT-7]

Another bad trend that has been established and accepted without questioning is that new tabs in web browsers are opened at the end rather than next to the current tab.

It is far more convenient if a new tab is opened right after the current tab so the last tab can immediately be accessed by swiping the URL bar left than having to look for it in the tab list.

Having to look for the last opened tab might seem like a minor inconvenience, but every eliminated inconvenience is progress. That's because a minor inconvenience repeated often becomes a major inconvenience.

On desktop Firefox, I enabled browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent in about:config and never looked back. I am surprised this isn't a checkbox in about:preferences yet. Having the new tab opened next to the current one is so much more convenient, especially if you have many tabs opened. I wish this was the default on all browsers.

On desktop browsers besides Firefox, I duplicate the current tab instead of opening the new tab just to avoid the bad behaviour of the tab being opened at the end.