602405 - Can't drag search terms onto new tab button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 624357

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[reeses.pieces5]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

In firefox 3, I had the "new tab" button on my navigation bar, and could highlight a word or phrase from something I was reading, and drag the highlighted contents onto the new tab button to initiate a search in a new tab with the terms.  Super convenient.  Now, there is no "new tab" button, just the "+" thing next to tabs in the upper right corner, and I cannot drag highlighted words onto it to generate a new tab with a search in it.  It only works for dragging URLs.

Clicking customize and dragging the "+" to the navigation pane seems to fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight word(s) in the current page
2. Drag to new tab button

Actual Results:  
Doesn't initiate a new search

Expected Results:  
A new tab is opened with a search using the dragged highlighted word(s)

Comment 1

[George Carstoiu]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110116 Firefox/4.0b10pre

Confirming issue. 

Changing default position of the "Open New Tab" and dragging highlighted text over it creates a new tab with the search results.

Possible correlation with Bug 624357.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Thanks George! Sounds like exactly the same problem.