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Consider this scenario: You’re browsing a website (using Firefox) that has a listing of several links that you want to check out. Just by chance, this website is open in the leftmost tab of your browser window, with several other tabs open as well. Instead of leaving the website by directly clicking on the links, you want to open the links in new tabs. So you open the first one in a new tab, and it opens as the rightmost tab in your browser window. You look at it, browse it, then you’re done with it, so you close the tab. Now, of course, you want to go back to the original tab on the left so that you can check out the next link right? That doesn’t happen though. The rightmost tab in the window is the one that is activated and you have to click back over to the leftmost tab every time you open a link in a new tab and subsequently close it.

If this sounds like a familiar, annoying situation, then you should immediately install the FLST extension for Firefox. Once this extension is installed, every time you close a tab, the tab that was most recently active is the one that is immediately given focus. This completely eliminates the problem described above, and makes for a more intuitive tabbed-browsing experience. On the other hand, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you should either get Firefox or start using tabbed-browsing with whatever your favorite browser is (just about every browser out there has this feature except of course the most popular Internet Explorer).

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