diff --git a/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/TerminalManager.swift b/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/TerminalManager.swift
index af85341c6..b919d5282 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/TerminalManager.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/TerminalManager.swift
@@ -124,13 +124,26 @@ class TerminalManager {
             tg.removeWindow(window)
         }
         
-        // Our windows start our invisible. We need to make it visible. If we
+        // Our windows start out invisible. We need to make it visible. If we
         // don't do this then various features such as window blur won't work because
         // the macOS APIs only work on a visible window.
         controller.showWindow(self)
         
-        // Add the window to the tab group and show it
-        parent.addTabbedWindow(window, ordered: .above)
+        // Add the window to the tab group and show it.
+        switch ghostty.windowNewTabPosition {
+        case "end":
+            // If we already have a tab group and we want the new tab to open at the end,
+            // then we use the last window in the tab group as the parent.
+            if let last = parent.tabGroup?.windows.last {
+                last.addTabbedWindow(window, ordered: .above)
+            } else {
+                fallthrough
+            }
+        case "current": fallthrough
+        default:
+            parent.addTabbedWindow(window, ordered: .above)
+        }
+
         window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(self)
         
         // It takes an event loop cycle until the macOS tabGroup state becomes
diff --git a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
index cfd9cdb95..e9c15ee95 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ extension Ghostty {
             guard let ptr = v else { return "" }
             return String(cString: ptr)
         }
+
+        /// window-new-tab-position
+        var windowNewTabPosition: String {
+            guard let config = self.config else { return "" }
+            var v: UnsafePointer<Int8>? = nil
+            let key = "window-new-tab-position"
+            guard ghostty_config_get(config, &v, key, UInt(key.count)) else { return "" }
+            guard let ptr = v else { return "" }
+            return String(cString: ptr)
+        }
         
         /// True if we need to confirm before quitting.
         var needsConfirmQuit: Bool {