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.

[Mills02]

I got an email from your original reply, here it is (I agree completely):

"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."