484024 - Dropping Tab onto Desktop doesn't Create a Web Shortcut

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is a different then https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475066 , as it's a platform dependent bug via the current behavior. On OSX and XP result in a web shortcut, but on Linux platforms, only a text doc is created.


Step to Reproduce:
1. Go to two different websites on different tabs in a single browser window.
2. Drag one of the tabs to the Desktop.

Actual Results:
A text document with the url as its contents are created.

Expected Results:
A web shortcut should be created on the desktop.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

On Windows dragging a tab to the desktop detaches the tab. It cuts the tab to a new window.

Comment 2

[Gero Mudersbach]

I cannot reproduce with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030422 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.7

using KDE 4.2 (drag to Desktopfolder) it asks me if I want to create a shortcut.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Dragging the tab out of the browser window should detach the tab. That it's not working is a bug.  You may be running Tab Mix Plus, which causes problems.

Gero, this is about new behaviour that isn't in 3.0.