497341 - Tabs keeping opening in new windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 489729

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[twistedbutstraight]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hi-IN; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 GTBDFff GTB5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hi-IN; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 GTBDFff GTB5

The mouse gestures in FF 3.5 Beta 4 are sticky and after going to a tab if you move your mouse to the left or down the tab gets pulled out into a new window. This happens even sometimes when you've been on a tab for a while and causes a lot of problems with tabbed browsing and the user is left wondering.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open FF 3.5 Beta 4 and open a few tabs with webpages.
2. Click and go to a tab.
3. On the new tab move your mouse to the left and down.

Actual Results:  
The tab or the previous tab opens in a new window.

Expected Results:  
Tabs should be opened in new windows when users pull them out of the tab area. The mouse gestures shouldn't be active throughout the tab or workspace.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

sounds like the same as bug 489729

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

wait, could you try lastest 3.5b99 upgrade? does that fix your problem?

Comment 3

[twistedbutstraight]

I did upgrade yesterday to the 3.5b99 build and observed this behavior a lot more. Also, unlike the bug 489729, I was experiencing this even with 4 tabs open. These were all heavy sites like the Mozilla community pages and YouTube.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

it's still a dupe (the number of tabs doesn't matter)