Closed Bug 727523 Opened 14 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Allow search by dragging text selection in tab-bar

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252441

People

(Reporter: hkk12369, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.163 Safari/535.1 Steps to reproduce: Currently firefox supports opening url in a new tab by dragging the selected url onto the tab area. However if the selected text is not a url, then nothing happens. Expected results: Dragging normal text (not url) into the tab bar should trigger a search (using default search engine of user). This is supported in google chrome but not in firefox.
It works if you drop the text in the search field.
(In reply to Cork from comment #1) > It works if you drop the text in the search field. It does, but then the search page opens in the same tab rather than a new tab.
When you select some words and drag them to the tab bar a drop arrow appears. But nothing happens if you drop them.
Works since March 2013.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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