Comments on: Tab To New Window Annoyance In Firefox

By: Georg

Georg — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:28:17 +0000

Thanks!

By: Average user

Average user — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:15:17 +0000

I hate this problems, drives me nuts. I don’t know of a way to solve it, but rather than copy and pasting the URL and closing the window, you can simply make the window normal size then click on the tab and drag it back to the original window underneath it and drop it back in place.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:23:21 +0000

Just for the Mozilla guys:
This (IMHO) really is 100% annoying, 0% useful.
Undo this feature, please.

Mike

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:33:12 +0000

Scott that’s true. But I would prefer it to not happen in first place.

By: Scott Hermanson

Scott Hermanson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:22:42 +0000

I have not looked into disabling tab tearing, but it is possible to drag the tab back to the primary window (provided ‘always show tabs’ is enabled).

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:17:52 +0000

Can’t thank you enough! This has been driving me completely crazy for weeks now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:18:16 +0000

yeah, it sucks, but guess what – all you have to do is open another tab on the newly ‘spawned’ window. then you can easily grab the tab you want to move back and move it back. close the blank window and its over. i’ve gotten pretty fast with this and reduced the annoyance to <5 seconds.

By: TheAnalyst

TheAnalyst — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:10:36 +0000

Is it really that hard to understand that different people have different usability needs? “Just drag it right back” apparently causes a refresh of the page, so it’s not too effective in certain use cases (e.g., any use case that causes a data change on the server side with each POST or GET).

Just because you don’t have the problem and don’t understand the problem doesn’t mean it’s not a problem — it just means you don’t understand. You “don’t get this post at all” — and I don’t get your comment at all. Did you really think you were being helpful, or were you just stroking your ego (or something else)?

Appreciate those who actually offered solutions. Do not appreciate the superiority-complex peanut gallery, nor the inclusion of a usability-impacting feature that can’t be disabled. If an add-on is needed to disable it, then an add-on should be needed to enable it; likewise, if it’s enabled in core, disabling it should be in core.

By: Really?

Really? — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:12:18 +0000

O_o
Is it really that hard not to drag your tabs all over the screen? How recently did you learn to use a mouse that you can’t do a simple click without dragging. This is like complaining that when you try to select a desktop icon, you drag it somewhere else on your desktop.
And as many people have pointed out already (and you have apparently ignored them) you can just drag it right back where it was.
I really don’t get this post at all.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:15:53 +0000

I’m using 3.6.13 and the fix that hej said worked great.

By: usually love firefox

usually love firefox — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:54:35 +0000

I wish Firefox would let me disable this without an add-on.

By: EndlessGrowthDoom

EndlessGrowthDoom — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:52:50 +0000

Annoying as hell…. I just started having the same problem as this article describes, today (tabs **unintentionally** open/move to new window when I only click on them to view them)… but I’ve never had this happen in the past on this pc setup (or any); even with the super sensitive touchpad on my Dinovo Edge wireless keyboard (using Setpoint software mouse speed/acceleration). It seems that firefox is now detecting tiny movements up/down/whatever with the mouse click and opening the tab in a new window.
Luckily the left click and the touch pad are operated via separate hands on this Dinovo keyboard; it doesn’t appear to do it if I remove my right thumb from the touch pad before clicking with my left thumb… for now…

It is strange though; I only downloaded firefox 3.6 (but did not install), and I also installed the video driver update 197.13 for my Nvidia GF 210 (in hp5260f slimline) last night… but I did not notice having this problem after that. Today I installed the current updates listed on the hp update page for the s5260f, except for the keyboard drivers, which curiously, would not install; and I also installed a java update… then it started doing this tab/window thing.

I was thinking it had something to do with the video update, since also; whenever I open tabs/windows the pages are zoomed in/larger… and I don’t have a vertical scroll bar on the side of my browser pages anymore (and I have no themes other than Default)… aaaannd, whenever I try to move tabs left/right, they do not follow my cursor as they use to, and instead indicate(arrow) to place them a few tabs over from my cursor, or show no move/placement-arrow at all?! whaaat? BTW, I did not really “notice” the tab problem until after the java update to 6-19.

By: Gruel

Gruel — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:53:13 +0000

Instead of Alt + Tab to get to the previous window you can also drag the tab to the location on the taskbar of the other window and it will bring it into focus, then drag it into position in the tabbar.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:28:35 +0000

To everyone responding about how un-annoying this is or how slow we are with our mouses: STFU. You are of no use at all. Google, on the other-hand, is apparently the most useful tool ever. I typed in “clicking firefox tab creates new window” and this post was the first search result. Simpy stunning. Thanks to anyone who provided, or at least attempted to provide, an actual solution.

I sure hope more IE, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Netscape and AOL users can come share with us FF users how they don’t experience this problem with their browsers and that we should make the switch!

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:49 +0000

hate it hate it hate it so annoying FF needs to fix it

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:08:29 +0000

@Andrew and Sarah:

USE THIS TO FIX IT.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12276

No more complaining – just use it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:56:24 +0000

The only solution I have so far is to drag it back to the previous window. This is what I do:

1. In the newly opened window drag the tab and hold the mouse.
2. Alt tab to the previous window and drag it up to the tabs.
3. You should see an arrow pointing where it goes.

Thats the best I can say so far.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:06:21 +0000

I am having this same problem and I really think Mozilla needs to fix it. It makes me so mad when I am at work and it starts doing that!

By: jimmeh

jimmeh — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:11:49 +0000

i hate this feature. i loved being able to drag a tab into a messenger window and it copypasta’ing the url there for me :(

also i notice dragging and dropping a picture to my desktop is retarded and doesnt always save the picture correctly. this used to be awesome in the last iteration :/

By: Rae

Rae — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:13:23 +0000

I understand the positives of this feature, and why it is there, but wow, it is SO sensitive!! Glad I found this add-on; hoping it works as well as people are saying (just downloaded but can’t restart FF quite yet).

I actually just wish the “trigger” was just a little LESS sensitive, because I would like to be able to use this feature occasionally….by choice! But if the option is a flat ON vs OFF, then off it goes. :(

Cheers