Safari Tab Annoyance

I am a little annoyed by a certain behavior in Apple’s otherwise excellent Safari browser as illustrated here:

When one creates a new tab in Safari, the new tab appears at the end of any row of tabs. If the tab one has currently selected is behind one ore more tabs, the new tab will skip over the next tabs. If one then goes to the new tab and removes it, one winds up with the next to last tab selected, not the tab one was previously on. This behavior is annoying and inconsistent with other tabbed browsers such as Opera and Mozilla.

To clarify the behavior I will give an example. In the image above, a new tab is created while the first (left most) tab is selected. When the new tab is selected and removed, the selected tab is now the second tab instead of the first.

There are two potential solutions to this problem:

• When the tab closes, go to the tab which was previously selected, not the previous tab or…
• When a new tab is created, it should appear after the tab currently selected, not at the end,