365296 - move tabs to new window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225680

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[ljbmailprotect-mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

There are a number of things that you just can't do between two tabs within the same window in FF.  i.e. dragging a URL from the location bar and dropping it within a text area being composed.  

Therefore, I often find the need to move something I have opened in a tab to a new window by itself.  Currently I have to type control N, drag the tab to the window,  then close the original tab.  

It would be a nice enhancement if you could right click on the tab and select a 'move to new window' function.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There are a number of things that you just can't do between two tabs within the
> same window in FF.  i.e. dragging a URL from the location bar and dropping it
> within a text area being composed.  
> 
This works in the latest trunk build so the function will be included in the next milestone, Firefox 3.0.
You can try this out: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
About the problem mentioned in the summary, maybe you mean Bug 113934?
In that case you can resolve this bug as a duplicate of Bug 113934.

Comment 3

[ljbmailprotect-mozilla]

I disagree that this is a duplicate of bug 113934.  After reading that bug description it appears that it is asking for the opposite function, to take one of two windows and drag it to a tab in another window.  

What I am asking for is to take an existing tab and move it to a standalone window.  This should be far less complex to implement and not dependant on the other request.

Comment 5

[ljbmailprotect-mozilla]

I agree This bug is a duplicate of bug 225680 as the problem is stated with the proposed solution.

However, the original problem statement:
There are a number of things that you just can't do between two tabs within the
same window in FF.  i.e. dragging a URL from the location bar and dropping it
within a text area being composed.  

is really a new bug if this would work between windows.  It currently only works if you drag the link to a new window.  I will open a new request for this.