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chailandau
New member
Status: In development

In Chrome, detaching a tab is a smooth animation. The new window made from detaching the tab is clear, and your mouse never "drops" the tab if that makes sense. In Firefox, the experience is more jarring. If this tab detach experience was smoother I'd be using FF instead of Chrome for the majority of my browsing. 

Please see screen recording for what I mean: https://youtu.be/6UBxlbNe8Xw

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

mconley
Employee
Employee

Hi chailandau,

We recently made an improvement to Firefox's tab-tear-out experience on macOS. See this bug for the details. That improvement is scheduled to ship in Firefox 111, which is currently in Beta, and slated to release to the general public in mid-March.

Thanks,

-mconley

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey all,

Here with some good news...

This is currently being worked on so we are upgrading the status to "In development"—feel free to check out @mconley's post in this thread for more info and stay tuned for updates 😀

 

chailandau
New member

Perfect, thanks so much!

PedroSaldanha
Making moves

Smoothing and animations can be a problem for low end devices. Even smooth scrolling can be hard for an old PC. Hope they can be careful in the development of this feature.

Pirsek
New member

Make tab dragging more smooth

When I try to drag it further, it just teleports after a smell delay. If I want to swap it with near standing tab, it just moves so laggy. I want to see a tab smoothly following my mouse, that will have much impact on user experience.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)