Chrome style tab tearing

[Llanfair]

In Chrome you can drag and drop tabs. You tear the tab off and then it lets you drag the tab to where you want and drop it. Completely WYSIWYG. Firefox seems to have beat Chrome in every field except this and it makes window organisation a real pain in Firefox sometimes as I have to tear and then manually move it around.

[alsanders]

Putting my support in for this as well. Tearing tabs off Chrome windows is just smoother right now. I have a multi-monitor setup and I frequently create new tabs in Chrome and drag them to another monitor so I can quickly have two windows open. Firefox is just more clunky in this regard.

[Rickvd]

Switched from Chrome to Firefox, and for me this is also my biggest complaint!

[okay_okay]

It's a minor thing but agreed +1

[said-zaki]

it been tree years now  do your works Firefox team pls its a deal breaker

[klutz519]

We need this. It's so convenient. Honestly it's the one major complaint I have of firefox, it's kind of insane

[Mills02]

Please please please add this. I was the longest holdout for Chrome until they finally removed even the manually added version of uBlock. Switched to Firefox and the tab tearing is nearly a deal breaker. Most working people have multiple monitors and the current method of moving tabs between them is neither pleasant or efficient. If you want to be a real competitor, show some good will by giving us features that will make us want to stay.

[gayfish]

Switching to FF from chrome and I need this!

[jeremieggrad]

Just switched to Firefox and chrome and yeah I also need this feature asap, shouldn't be hard to do. Crazy that it's been three years since people made this thread, and it's still not a feature. I wanna be able to organize my tabs easily but i also really don't wanna go back to chrome, Google's been trying to shove AI down our throats among other changes I really don't like. Adding this feature to Firefox would honestly make it unbeatable imo because Firefox does pretty much everything I need except that, and it's a huge dealbreaker 

[LonghornWARP]

This is a great idea.

[Noahela]

This is not a minor thing, I know multiple people who prefer chrome just because of this very issue!

[lily]

Absolutely. I love Firefox, but this is a dealbreaker for me and I am using chromium because of it. Firefox's method is fascinatingly clunky.

[tepattaja]

It really is kind of annoying, that right now you need to drag the tab, drop it (the tab will be the same size as the original broswer size when the tab was dragged) and then you have to move it again to resize it.

It would make much more sense if the user could just detach the tab as a whole, then drag it (and it would visible show the whole tab while you move it and not just a very tiny preview window) and choose where you put it. It should be a tad smaller window, so you can just resize it yourself or just press the full screen button.

Right now the tab drag and drop system isn't smooth at all.

[Shooks]

If a browser can't show me where my tab is while I'm dragging it to another monitor, it's not a useful browser. Full stop.

[mirddes]

i used firefox for the first decade of it's existence and then switched over to chrome for a decade.

chrome handles moving tabs between windows and monitors SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER because as soon as you drag the tab out of a window it becomes it's own window. if you drag it to the top of a monitor it will maximize to the entire area of the monitor. if you attempt this in firefox the resulting window will be of identical proportions to the window the tab was moved from. it doesn't matter if you want windows snapping or fancy zones, chrome just works flawlessly(for window/tab management.... sucks for long list of other reasons of course).

and if its not the bare desktop you're dragging your tab over firefox can have wildly unpredictable behaviour including simply doing nothing.


people have been bemoaning this difference in behaviour for the better part of a decade, please install chrome, open a couple of tabs and experiment with moving them between various monitors and window positions, replicate in firefox, note the vast differences. no workarounds should be required, behaviour should not be radically different across operating systems etc.

drag tab to become new window =/= let go of tab to become new window

and that's the distinction that makes it feel **bleep**ty. what brought me back to firefox after a decade was the still nagging sensation that i was missing out on vital extensions, and the ease of use of adding keyword searches without having to edit bookmarks with %s for things chrome didn't auto detect(which also works great in firefox)

this tab/window dragging/dropping bull**bleep** is literally the only blemish in my 2nd decade of using firefox. please fix it ❤️ ❤️ ❤️


in chrome when you start dragging a tab it becomes it's own window.
in firefox when you let go of a dragged tab it becomes it's own window.

vastly different timing windows produce vastly different behaviour.
it may seem niche, but it's not.

[mirddes]

ok so i wrote up a multiparagraph comment but logging in deleted it.


in essense its a difference in timing windows that produces dramatically different outcomes


in chrome a tab becomes a window when you START dragging it.
in firefox a tab becomes a window when you STOP dragging it.

i used firefox for it's first decade, and chrome for the past decade, and switched back less than 2 years ago. this difference in behaviour is the only blemish on an otherwise flawless experience.