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ShareThisThe latest Firefox 3.1 development release features the announced option for tab tearing: drag a tab out of its current window, and it is removed and opened on a new one, providing a more intuitive way to organize your web browsing.
Alternatively, you can right-click on a tab and select Open in New Window.
The feature, that mimics Google Chrome’s behavior, had been requested and planned several times in the past.
Tab tearing is the latest in a long list of tabbed browsing improvements that already included a new tab button, a tab preview panel, tab reparenting for true tab moving across windows, tab cloning, and visual tab switching. Some of the changes follow a design shift to make the tab bar visible at all times, which has also got the throbber out of the menu bar, as it is now redundant with each tab’s activity indicator.
Animations for moving, opening and closing tabs was also mentioned for Firefox 3.1 but it’s still unclear if will make it.
As usual with new features, tab tearing has introduced a few new bugs, but, hopefully, they will all be ironed for Firefox 3.1′s next development release, Beta 2, due within the next couple of weeks.
Cool. But I think that Chrome’s way looks a little bit better and more intuitive because you instantly get a full new window to drag around and not a small preview like showed in the video.
“The feature, that mimics Google Chrome’s behavior”
not really, IMHO
the “spirit” of this Chrome feature is that you get a kind-of-application window, so your page actually looks like an *application* window and not a *browser* window. For example, you can use it to give gmail.com an application-look.
Firefox keeps the tab and menu bar in the new window, so Firefox don’t share nor achieves Chrome’s goal at this time.
orlando_ombzzz, they are two different features. This is just about tab tearing.
What you’re describing is stand alone web apps, which is provided by Prism, currently available as an stand alone app (like AIR) and a Firefox extension ((https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665).
Abel: I’ve been dying for this feature for years, I didn’t even know people made internet shortcuts on their desktop still :/
Everyone else: There’s loads and loads of spin-off bugs from this, it’s going to get ‘more intuitive’ but I think it won’t be as flashy as Chrome does it haha.
> tab cloning
Where is tab cloning ? I can not find it anywhere!
A limited implementation is already available in Firefox 3: press Ctrl key while dragging a tab.
In Firefox 3.1 you will be able to do this without triggering an automatic reload. Also, you can clone a tab pressing Ctrl and the reload button.
You can ‘tab clone’ as long as your willing to lose back/forward history by middle clicking on the refresh icon.
Damiant, you’re right: Ctrl + Refresh doesn’t really clone, as the new tab loses the original’s history. Ctrl + drag seems to be the only way then.
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I hate to point this out but Safari does this and has been doing it for a while now. Certainly since Safari v3 was released which precedes Chrome by many months.
You’re right – and it does it with a cool little animation too!
I agree with Wikzo – users should see a ‘mini’ browser window appear when they drag the tab off the parent window. The video above makes it look like the user has dragged an image off the page.
I look forward to seeing what this will look like on OS X :-)
So did Safari beat Opera to this, or did Safari get it from Opera? Because Opera has had it for a LONG time
Who cares? Safari isn’t available for Mac or Linux.
I’m going to take a wild guess here and say your thinking of Chrome. I think you will find that the majority of the Mac browser market is Safari :P
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Who cares who did it first? What is this a race where whoever doesn’t come up with a feature first can’t use it at all? I don’t even USE tabs, but this would be a nice feature if I ever click a tab by accident.
But seriously, grow up people. Firefox doesn’t always come up with an idea first, and it still have lots of features I’d like to see implemented, but this is what they do do.
1. Allow Add-Ons
2. Come out of beta
And thats good enough for me.
Well I prefer developers to innovate and make the browser better instead to wait for competition and then start implementing forgotten features like Private Browsing.
I’m glad other browsers get ideas from one another, but i hate that every time Firefox adds a feature, the web blows up about it like it’s brand new.
Sweet, this is the feature I’ve been wanting ever since Firefox was released.
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I use the session saving capability of FF3, but it fails to work with more than one window of tabs. Unless this fixes that problem, it is just plain useless for me, as is the current facility to use multiple windows. Fingers crossed…
Seems like I’ll be using cookiepie addon for a long time until mozilla team incorporate it in the main branch.
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I just wish they’d allow us to place the damn new tab button somewhere other than next to the tabs. It’s why I went back to using Flock 2.
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Opera has this feature already…is that a big thing ?
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Something I really like about Google Chrome is that when you close a tab, it also closes the in-page search box. Same with clicking on a link. Is there an extension that adds this to Firefox, and/or is it planned for Firefox anytime?
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This is a great feature and will prove really useful. Firefox is getting better all the time.
I really feel confused about this new feature. It is really annoying when I just want to switch between tabs but if just a little “drag”, a new window pops up, that is not what I want. So I would like to have an option to choose to enable or disable this feature in the Tools->Options->tabs.
Thanks.
I agree, it is way too sensitive and I need to find a way to disable this IMO useless feature.
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I dont need this feature, how can I disable it?
It’s an integrated part of the Firefox code without a toggle built in. Your sort of like asking “I don’t need bookmarks, how do I disable them?”
Disable tearoff tabs plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12276
This really should be in the preferences to turn it off. Even with the latest build, going from another app to Firefox using my Wacom tablet _always_ tears off the tab. I’ve been a strong supporter of Firefox but this “feature” nearly made me go to another browser. Fortunately this plug-in saved the day.
An ideal browser to me would be one that allows you to open several tabs at once and have all of them visible at the same time. I mean you could resize each tab so that they all would be visible like you can with your Windows Desktop.
This type of setup would useful when you have content in a tab that is constantly updated by the server and other tabs for surfing and searching etc.
This “feature” is driving me crazy. A disable option would be greatly appreciated. Or at least reduce the sensitivity. It opens new windows when all I wanted to do is select the tab, if my mouse slipped a pixel or two while clicking on it. It’s happened like 10 times in 3 days.
Yeah I googled to see if I could disable this and it took me to this page. I couldn’t find anything.
Please! I need a disable feature before I go MAD!
Easy, stop BETA testing.
Isn’t the idea of beta testing to get us to test features and refine them. Would you rather have this feature go out live, as is, and drive people away from FF?
No, that’s why I helped triage this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465184
And reopened it when the developer working on tab tearing had closed it as fixed. Actually get involved in the testing community if you want to refine features, bugzilla, newsgroups, irc, forums etc.. If your just beta testing to see what’s new then go back to the stable release if a bug is driving you nuts.
To start off with you could vote for that bug and bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465346
Those please no “me too” comments, they already spam mine and many other e-mails boxes enough :/. If you should think there should be an actual disable option then write a bug :) (though do a search beforehand).
Very nice idea but absolutely untested by developers and with no option to disable it — I just hope that this is not caused by bad application/architecture design…
I’ve added my vote to these two bugs and added them to my own bugs-wishlist on http://nusunt.eu/software/bugs-to-vote-for/
It’s clearly a feature transformed in a bug :|
Aargh! While it’s an old post, this is a “today” issue for me. I found this post after upgrading to FF 3.5 from 3.0.10 and noticing that now “drag to desktop” is “drag to window.” I use D2D all the time (actually D2folder) and always hated the fact that IE required one to find a context menu (sometimes inadvertently disabled by lazy programmers) in order to create a shortcut on the desktop.
I’ve been scanning the comment stream to try to figure out how to either put this back or find a workaround, and it took this 25-year IT guy a bit too long to effectively “guess” how to do it…that “location” icon next to the address bar (referred to above, it’s helpful to think it’s actually *part* of the location bar)..is on the left of the address, for those of you who have never thought anything of it, as I was wont to do.
For what it’s worth, developers (and I’m one, too) it can be helpful when changing subtle features to detect a person’s first use of the changed feature and then overlay the interface with “here’s what’s up, and oh–and here’s a checkbox to turn off these helpful hints.” A company that does this quite well is Cooliris…anytime there’s an update, the first time you launch Cooliris, large, colorful block arrows show you what’s changed. It’s boorish if there are a lot of successive updates, but I’d rather turn them off than struggle to find them. While it might be obtuse to do this in Firefox, the first time I use something that’s silently changed (should ALL of my users read your change logs too?) and I get a little helpful fade-in tip…that would be fantastically nice.
Noooooo!!! When I drag a tab out of the window all I want is to create a link in my desktop. Who wants two instances of Firefox runing at the same time?
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You can still do that by dragging the site button icon (next to the location bar) instead of the tab.
How about alt+drag? Isn’t that a de-facto standard for creating links?
Not under linux, alt+drag will move the window about.
Oh, right. I always forget about the alt+mouse button shortcuts for some reason -_-