`O` new tab opens as the last tab instead of to the right of the current one

[halvabner]

Describe the bug

O new tab opens as the last tab instead of to the right of the current one

To Reproduce

1. Type O
2. Type foo
3. Press RETURN

Browser and Vimium version

Chromium 137.0.7151.55 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit) Revision 254bc711794d7ad269495f3d419a209935b78cad-refs/branch-heads/7151@{#1757} OS Linux JavaScript V8 13.7.152.10 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Command Line /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --app --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode --force-dark-mode=enabled --flag-switches-begin --disable-smooth-scrolling --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,EnableTabMuting,ScrollableTabStrip:minTabWidth/72,kScrollableTabStripOverflow:tabScrollOverflow/2,kScrollableTabStripWithDragging:tabScrollWithDragMode/2 --flag-switches-end

Vimium Version 2.2.1

[IMMZ]

Tried to check on my enironment: Vimium 2.3 with Firefox 128 ESR opens to the right on the current one

[NI57721]

I have the same problem on Arch Linux too. I'll try to fix it.

[NI57721]

This seems to be happened because of the change of the behaviour of chrome.search.query in some environments. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/search#method-query

chrome.search.query({disposition: 'NEW_TAB', text: 'foo'}) creates a new tab as the last tab instead of to the right of the current one on my environment.

• Google Chrome: 140.0.7339.80
• Vimium: 2.3
• OS: Arch Linux

We can avoid this by using chrome.runtime.sendMessage instead. I've made sure this works only on my environment.

chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
      handler: "openUrlInNewTab",
      url: "foo",
    });

@philc What would you say to this workaround?