Tab order with Open Link in New Tab
If you open a blank new tab, it always opens as the rightmost tab, so each additional new tab opens to right of the previous one. If you use Open Link in New Tab (or Ctrl+click or middle click a link), each new tab opens immediately to the right of the current tab, rather than to the right of the last tab that was opened, like in Firefox or Chrome, or at the end of the tabbar, like blank new tabs and like Firefox for Android.
This seems wrong to me because it breaks the standard behavior that new tabs open to the right by instead opening them to the left of that last tab that was opened. Yes, they still open to the right of the current tab, but the tabbar fills up leftwards — backwards when compared with blank tabs. Other GNOME apps that I can think of, like Gedit and GNOME Terminal, also open new tabs at the end of the tabbar, although admittedly they only really have an action like opening a new blank tab in Epiphany, not like opening a link.
What I'm wondering: is this an intended behavior or just a side effect of a design that is just placing the new tab to the right of the current tab? If the Firefox/Chrome behavior is too complicated, it would make more sense to me to instead have links open at the far right of the tabbar.