1482652 - When creating a new window by detaching existing tab and moving it to a different monitor, the new window is opened on the original monitor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1483786

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Description

[jb.massey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Build ID: 20180811103606

Steps to reproduce:

On Windows 10 (April 2018): Given a Firefox window on Monitor X (any monitor), click and drag an existing tab to detach it from the window and create a new Firefox window, then drag it to the top, approximately center, of Monitor Y (any other monitor) and release.


Actual results:

A new Firefox window containing only the detached tab is created and maximized on Monitor X.


Expected results:

A new Firefox window containing only the detached tab is created and maximized on Monitor Y.

Comment 1

[jb.massey]

- I was able to reproduce on a new profile
- I also tested this on my Mac (High Sierra 10.13.5):
- When I started up Firefox on the Mac, the build was 63.0a1 2018-08-04 and the behavior was as Expected above, but after updating to 2018-08-11, I was able to reproduce the bug.

Comment 2

[u554753]

Hi jb.massey,

Thanks for reporting this bug. 

I am able to reproduce this bug with version 63.0a1.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Build ID: 20180815100249