302435 - Tabs are selected on mousedown, causing them to be selected at akward times

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 296970

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Shacklett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

Because tabs are selected when the mouse button is clicked, rather than
released, they are brought into focus at times that they don't necessarily need
to be. IE, moving a tab on the tab bar or adding a tab to another browser window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click a tab with intent to move it or drag it to another window rather than
select it.
2. The tab immediately comes into focus.


Actual Results:  
The tab immediately comes into focus.

Expected Results:  
The tab should not come into focus until the mouse button is released. If I drag
the tab to another window or drag it from one position to another on the tab
bar, it should be moved without selecting the tab.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Probably a dupe of bug 296980 per its second comment.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See also Bug 296970.

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Same issue as bug 296970, this is intentional and by design

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 296970 ***