I think if you try the steps you will see that Test3 that is closed is between Test1 and Test2.
Thanks for showing me that someone else is already asking reversion of the change, as they are confronted to the same issue.
My thoughts so far:
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Landing on left is better for the situation I described and @prdlik described (checking a note while working on a note, and be returned where we were)
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Landing on right is better for left to right processing of a series of tab. Web browsers likely land on right for that reason. In particular people will often open several search results, and want to look at them one by one from left to right, like flipping the pages of a book, closing them (or some of them) after they have looked at them. In that particular case, landing on left is annoying. Going back to Obsidian however, not only is the “opening all search results in tabs” case much less typical, but it can still be done with landing on left if one just processes tabs right to left.
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One way to accomodate my case and @prdlik’s case, and also accomodate left to right sequential processing might be to land on left IF the closed tab is the last created tab and no other tab has been closed since it was created, and land on the right otherwise, but it might be too complicated perhaps, and with unforeseen issues.
I guess the change was made to align with web browsers, however just because both Obsidian and browsers use tabs, that doesn’t mean they are used in the same way. There are applications in which landing on right is really better, but in Obsidian it seems worse, and it seems the original design choice was better.