
In XnView MP, you have 2 tabs by default.
Browser & View, if you select one thumbnail, View becomes active, and you can view the picture. If you change the file by file prev/next in THIS view, the browser will change the current thumbnail too. Browser and THIS view are always synchronised.
You can open more views with 'open in a new tab'
For me it's better for basic users to always have only ONE view!
In XnView win, there is many problems with that.
BUT View tab seems to be not so good, seems to be confusing (for me too).
So perhaps a better solution will be to hide this VIEW tab, and use it only when you click or press enter on a thumb.
What do you think?
I can add too a setting to open always a new tab, but here if have no more the synchronisation!
Many Image browser use only 1 view window ( it's less complicated

PS: Compare, ... will use TAB too, but i'll add an option to disabled TAB, and use independant window for each browser/window/...