359839 - Dragging a Tab to a new window does not maintain form entries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225680

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Colin Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

While I'm sure this is likely to be a dupe, I can't find the original in the system; I did search, and I apologize.
On the off-chance that it's not a dupe-

Dragging a tab from one Firefox window to another works well, even though it is not specifically coded. It drags the URL, and in doing so re-loads the URL, appearing as if you dragged the tab to the new window.
In doing so, however, the new tab loses everything that was entered into that original page, such as entries in a form.

The 10.5 version of Safari supports dragging and dropping tabs between windows, and it's not unreasonable user behavior.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a website with a long form, such as Bugzilla
2. Enter information into the form
3. Open a new browser window
4. Drag the tab from the first window to the second

Actual Results:  
The second window will load the page fresh, with no information. Your tab will continue to remain in the original window.

Expected Results:  
The second window will contain the tab with the filled out information.
The original window will no longer contain the tab.

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

Related to bug 246073. Work-around extension available from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298571 .

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225680 ***