1437457 - When background tabs are dragged to rearrange don't switch to that tab.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P5)

Description

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When background tab(s) are dragged to rearrange,the tab is switched that tab.

Comment 1

[Alex Thayer [:alexical] (she/her)]

This frustrates me too. Unfortunately this is tricky because we switch tabs on mouse down, which makes tab switching feel faster. This is also how Chrome and Edge do things, so I don't think this is changing any time soon.

Comment 2

[Kevin Cox [@kevincox:matrix.org]]

I have a related case that is even more obviously "wrong". Let me know if it is better to file a separate bug.

When you have 2 windows dragging a background tab from window A to window B changes the active tab in window A.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create window A with tabs 1 (active), 2 and 3.
2. Create window B.
3. Drag tab 2 to window B.

Expected state: Window A still has tab 1 active.

Actual state: Window A has tab 3 active.

A workaround that I do surprisingly frequent is to drag tab 2 first before the active tab, then start a new drag to the new window. Since the focus always seems to shift to the window to the right of the dragged tab when it goes to a new window this results in the original window ending up focused again.