572048 - Separating tab from window causes tab to reload.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Zack Buhman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Moving a tab outside the main window (creating a new tab) causes the page to reload.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any website (preferably a larger one with lots of embedded stuff if you have a faster connection so you can notice the effect more visibly).
2. Drag that tab outside of that window (meaning you probably need at least two tabs going).
Actual Results:  
The new window/tab doesn't really act as the same tab, it seems to just destroy the original tab and create a new window with the same address (page data may be transferred as well, but that's what I'd assume is going on).

Expected Results:  
The tab should, instead *actually* move instead of being destroyed/re-created.

This doesn't really make much of a difference while browsing Google, but it is definitely a problem for pages composed of large applets/embedded content (like Youtube even).  Since the data is already loaded, why spend the time to reload when the user never explicitly asked for it.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of Firefox 5? Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[Zack Buhman]

Wow. 3.6.3... Hard to believe that that was only a year ago.

Yes, it works now.