472024 - holding ctrl when detaching a tab should copy to new window and not delete the original

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[eyal gruss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

holding ctrl when dragging a tab on the tab strip of the same window, or to the tab strip of another window, copies the tab without deleting the original

holding ctrl when dragging a tab off the tab strip, shows the copy "+" sign, however deletes the original.

bug 470189 may fix this when dragging to an existing window. the current bug is needed to make the behavior consistent also for detaching to a new window

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. hold ctrl while dragging a tab off the tab strip
Actual Results:  
the tab is detached and the original is deleted

Expected Results:  
the original tab should not be deleted

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090103

WORKSFORME. Does this happen in Safe Mode as well (with no extensions interfering)?

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

Note: You have to keep the Ctrl key pressed until releasing the mouse button and you have to see the blue downwards pointing insertion arrow for tab duplication to work.

Comment 3

[Simon Bünzli]

(In reply to comment #2)
> you have to see the blue downwards pointing insertion arrow for tab
> duplication to work.

... which this bug is about. Silly me. Confirmed.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This particular aspect doesn't block, but would be nice to have.

(I think tab duplication regressed recently, since I'm not seeing that behaviour at all with a recent nightly - do we have a bug on that?)

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Still nice to have, still not blocking. Mano, how hard would it be to do this?

Comment 6

[bryant rojas]

I'm going to take a stab at this :)

Comment 7

[eyal gruss]

not sure when this happened but its fixed on 34beta :)