715296 - Restore Session - Allow user to Reorder Tabs/Move Across Windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[ametedinov]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111115183158



Actual results:

When presented with the Restore Session options, a user can choose which windows and which tabs in a particular window to restore. However, suppose one wanted to rearrange the tabs or to move some tabs from one window to the other prior to clicking the Restore button. For instance consider the screenshot attached. It depicts two windows with a few open tabs in each window. Now suppose one wants to place all university-related tabs in the same window. That would require moving the third tab from window one into window 2. However such an option does not currently exist.

One way to add such a feature is to have the user drag and drop the tabs the way he wants them to be rearranged. 

Another, perhaps easier to program way, is to add buttons on the left side that allow one to "Move Up" or "Move Down" the selected tab. 

The addition of this functionality by either of the aforementioned methods would be highly appreciated.

Comment 1

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Thank you for filing this issue but I don't think we would want to implement this. Moving tabs around is something that can easily be done after the session has been restored. Also hopefully, you shouldn't see this dialog too often.