the Forty-Second Parallel

The best Firefox extensions add-ons are the ones that make the browser behave the way you expect it to in the first place. To that end, one of my favorites these days is Tabs Open Relative. It's not flashy or really that impressive, but it does one thing very well.

When you click to open a link in a new tab, Tabs Open Relative causes new tabs to be opened to the right of the current tab, instead of at the far right of the tab bar. This is good for two reasons:

1. If I want to switch between my current tab and the new tab, the mouse doesn't have to travel very far to go between them.

2. The content in the new tab is usually related in some way to the content in the first tab. So when I'm scanning the tab bar, related tabs are already grouped together.

No, Tabs Open Relative isn't world changing. But by doing those two things, it makes my life in Firefox a little bit better. Hooray ;-)