when you open a new tab in Firefox, Firefox will place that tab at the end of the tab bar. This mean after the last tab in the current tab collection. Problem comes when you have too many tabs opened.  Because you have to scroll to the other end of the tab bar to see the newly opened tabs. This is an annoying task.

So how do you tell Firefox to open new tabs right next to the current tab?

There are few addons that tailor-made for this purpose. Next Tab, Tab open Relative are few of those. But,  Tab mix plus beats them all by providing a whole lot of tab management features including the so important  ‘Open new tabs next to current tab‘.

Here are some of the key features of Tab Mix Plus addon :

• Open new tabs next to current one – The feature we are talking about.
• Lock Tab – Prevent a tab from navigating to another page from the current page it shows.
• Protect Tab – Prevent any accidental close of  a tab.
• Duplicate Tab – Open a copy of the selected tab.
• Reload all the tabs -  Reload all the tabs currently opened. This feature is useful when you open firefox that in a process of restoring the previous session tabs, but the internet connection is not active. So you will see page cannot display for all the tabs. with this feature, you simply right click one tab and select “Reload all the tabs”.
• Close similar tabs – Close all the tabs belongs to a single website / domain name.
• Set Focus to new tab – Auto set focus to newly opened tab (Probably not an option i use)
• Warn when closing multiple tabs
• Undo closed tabs – Just right click on any tab and select ‘Undo close Tab’. By default you can reopen last 10 tabs you closed.
• Recently closed tab list – List all the tabs that you closed recently in the right click menu of tab mix plus  itself.
• Enhanced Session Manager - Save any session for feature use and Restore any previously saved sessions.
• Crash Recovery – Restore crashed sessions on reopen forefox.

There are many more features it has, but little less important that this whole list.

Most of this features can be simply accessed by right click on any tab. For options like the one related to the topic, you need to go to the Tab mix plus options window and should enable the feature.

This is how you enable the  ‘Open new Tabs next to current Tab’ feature in Tab Mix Plus :

Install Tab Mix Plus ! (You need to restart Firefox after the installation)

Goto Tools -> Select “Tab Mix Plus Ooptions’ -> Enable “Open new tabs next to current tab” and click ok. That’s it ! from now on you will see the new tabs opening next to the current tab.