Dragging tab to a new window coming to Firefox

In: General

16 Nov 2008

Completely by accident, I discovered that you can now drag a tab out from its current window to a new window in a recent Firefox nightly. A short video 24-second better explains what I’m talking about:

This tab tearing capability is a pretty neat feature – I know you can already do this in Safari, Opera and Galeon. It’s really well done in Safari, which I think is what Firefox is emulating. Nice to see Firefox follow suit!

If you can’t wait for Firefox 3.1, try it out in a recent Firefox nighty build (remember to use a new profile unless you are willing to risk corrupting your daily profile).

3 Responses to Dragging tab to a new window coming to Firefox

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Craig Buchek

November 17th, 2008 at 1am

Actually, you can do that in Firefox 3.0 — at least in Windows. I’ve not tried it in Mac or Linux yet, but I just did it in Firefox 3.0 for Windows yesterday.

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Charles Sullivan

November 19th, 2008 at 5am

This feature was available on FF2.0 as well. Nothing new here.

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Chu Yeow

November 19th, 2008 at 9am

Actually this is a new feature. You may have some extension installed that allows this. See http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/11/firefox-31-gets-tab-tearing/ for more info :)

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