445366 - Drag and Drop of text or link should put it in address bar of a new tab (super DnD)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alex]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

This is a feature request present in another browser, that I'd like to have in Firefox.

The drag & drop of a link for only a few pixels should have the same effect as "Open link in new Tab"
When selecting text (that may be a web address), the text should be parsed on a new tab in the address bar upon dragging for a few pixels (i.e. not to a drop destination)

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Alex]

Bug still occurs in Firefox version 3.6.12

Comment 3

[Lie Ryan]

There is an addon for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6912/