478896 - Dragging one tab outside of the tab group launches a new window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[marko.t.salonen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Dragging one tab outside of the tab group launches a new window, moving the dragged tab into the new window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open 1+ tabs
2. grab one tab
3. drag the tab away from the other tabs, like you were moving the tab order, but move outside the tab group, release
Actual Results:  
See details above

Expected Results:  
Moved the tab at the outermost place in the tab group

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/11/firefox-31-gets-tab-tearing/

Not a bug. In Firefox 3.1 this is a new feature to let you tear off a tab to create a new window. The sensitivities of this in beta 2 weren't yet perfected, so it works better in recent builds. (beta 2 is quite old now)

Comment 2

[marko.t.salonen]

Hopefully this can be turned off in the final version.