346006 - Dropping an external link on the "All tabs" button loads it in the current tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 346172

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

STR:
1. Open google.com in current page.
2. Drag an HTML file from Windows Explorer and drop it on the "All tabs" button.

Actual results:
The file gets opened in the current tab overwriting google.com

Expected results:
The file is loaded in a new tab.

This is regression from 1.5, which loaded the file in a new tab when it was dropped on the tab strip outside any of the tabs. Note that dropping a link from inside Firefox to the All tabs button opens it in a new tab, as expected.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060726 BonEcho/2.0b1

gavin confirmed the bug on windows, and A`ja on IRC said it was not a problem on Linux.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

as gavin points out, this might be the same issue as bug #346172.

I'll confirm.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

yes, it is the caused by the same issue.

nickolay, thanks for reporting this.

gavin, thanks for putting 2 and 2 together!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 346172 ***