This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

[bug] Tab Detach, disable tab to new window when dragging along adressbar(sorting tabs/focus tab)

1q2w3e
1q2w3e
more options

Is it possible to limit the spawn of a new window for a tab to the boundaries of the Firefox window it self, or some set-point delay before it's allowed to spawn the tab in a new window?

Now with sorting tabs or holding the mouse button for a split second to long after tab focus while moving on to the page content, they spawn to a new window because when they hover the address bar that feature gets triggered, which is quite annoying tbh.

Is it possible to limit the spawn of a new window for a tab to the boundaries of the Firefox window it self, or some set-point delay before it's allowed to spawn the tab in a new window? Now with sorting tabs or holding the mouse button for a split second to long after tab focus while moving on to the page content, they spawn to a new window because when they hover the address bar that feature gets triggered, which is quite annoying tbh.

Modified by 1q2w3e

All Replies (3)

TyDraniu
TyDraniu
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Try to use this extension.

1q2w3e
1q2w3e Question owner
more options

The plugin works, but it seems to be quite some dirty workaround that seems to make the action immediately undone, such method is likely to destroy my sessions with nested tabs.

I rather want to avoid the use of plugins as a cheap patch for a bug/poorly overthought feature that should receive a place in about:config, that is annoying many people for many years as these found bug reports show. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465346 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465531 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465712 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465917 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466436 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466156 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468075 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469142 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469488 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469813 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470103 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469952 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470937 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478089 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472733 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478638 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479628 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480218 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484815 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493215

Modified by 1q2w3e

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Hi 1q2w3e, maybe you can recruit a developer to work on one or more of those bugs. Support forum volunteers generally do not work on coding Firefox.