gHacks technology news » firefox annoyance http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Tab To New Window Annoyance In Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/29/tab-to-new-window-annoyance-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/29/tab-to-new-window-annoyance-in-firefox/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:15:34 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13980 firefoxFirefox 3.5 comes with an annoying problem that I’m not able to solve. The developers – for unknown reasons – have decided to make it possible to drag tabs which has the effect that they spawn a new Firefox window and close the tab in the old Firefox instance.

The big problem is that this happens from time to time without intention on my part. One way to activate tabs is to left-click on them. If that button is pressed to long and the mouse moved downwards just a bit it will move the website in the tab to the new window.

There is apparently no way of disabling the feature to drag and drop tabs into new windows in Firefox at this point. It happens about once a day that a tab gets accidentally dragged to much around so that it spawns in a new window. The only solution then is to copy the url, close the new web browser window, open a new tab and load the url again in the main browser window. It is not even possible to undo closing the tab in the main browser window as its history will be completely moved to the new browser window as well.

Please leave a comment if you know of a way to disable the spawning of new Firefox windows when dragging and dropping tabs.

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