dragging text to a new tab appear a loading icon
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)
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(Reporter: andro.marian.v94, Unassigned, NeedInfo)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0
Steps to reproduce:
Selecting a text on a webpage then drag it to tab-bar to open a new tab with that text.
Actual results:
Appears a black screen with a loading icon.
Expected results:
To open the web page.
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Comment 1•1 month ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•1 month ago
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Hi,
I tried to reproduce this issue using Firefox 145.0 (2025-11-03) and Firefox 147.0a1 (2025-12-08) on macOS 15 and Windows 10 by following the steps in the description, but I was not able to do so.
Are there any additional steps, settings, or details that I might be missing? Is this still reproducible with a clean profile?
Thank you!
It's randomly and rarely happening. Not sure why.
I think the webpage is loaded behind. But that loading is not disappearing for some reason.
If I try to reload, ctrl+shift+r, press enter on the address bar the page is the same.
If is there any way to debug this when happens.
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Comment 6•1 month ago
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Thank you for the report, Marian. When it does work, does the new tab load a search page that searches for the text you dragged?
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Comment 8•1 month ago
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We'll check AsyncTabSwitcher to see if that can explain why it gets stuck in that loading state.
Marian, did this start happening recently, or has this happened to you for some time? If you can, please attach information from about:support
Happened with 135 too, I used that version until 1-2 weeks ago.
I add the support when I get home.
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Comment 10•1 month ago
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Async tab switcher supports debug logging that can be enabled from about:config. Could you please create browser.tabs.remote.logSwitchTiming (Boolean type) and set it to true, and then check if the browser console has any relevant output when you see the bug again? Thanks!
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Comment 11•29 days ago
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This happened today for some reason. The output is this.
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Comment 12•29 days ago
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Comment 13•29 days ago
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On the tab preview the image of webpage seams fine.
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Comment 14•28 days ago
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This happened again today: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPuKFz20IVK_k6pBLAgnMiXLLMUoZf4s/view?usp=sharing
The webpage is loading, I can click on links, inspect elements.... But that overlay is not disappearing.
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Comment 15•20 days ago
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The severity field is not set for this bug.
:dwalker, could you have a look please?
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