269904 - drop link onto new tab button should open link in a new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179845

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Eppstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

It would be very convenient if, when I drag and drop a link onto the new tab
button in the main toolbar, it would open that link into a new tab. I think this
would be more intuitive for new users than dropping the link onto the X (delete
tab button). Of course, the most intuitive is just dropping the link into the
empty tab background (which works of course) but this option goes away once you
have several tabs open. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that the new tab button has been added to the main toolbar.
2. Drag a link.
3. Drop it onto the new tab button.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Open link in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179845 ***