Sam Ramsden reports: You need to have 2 "long" java files available... ie longer than a page or two so that you can easily tell that your caret position has changed. You need to have Settings ...... Tab Appearance, Editer Tab placement = "none". Open your first file and put the cursor at the very top of the file (ctrl+home) Open your second file and put the cursor at the very top of the file (ctrl+home) Go back to your first file using "Recent Files..." list and put the cursor at the very bottom of the file (ctrl+end) Go back to your second file using "Recent Files..." list and put the cursor at the very bottom of the file (ctrl+end). Is the cursor in the expected position when you flip between these two files or did it manage to find it's way back to the top or to the class declaration of the java source? If you make the Editor Tabs visible again, you'll see the correct behaviour when you repeat the above test.