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.

[ACoding]

Responsive Drag and Dropping of Tabs Into a New Window

This feature makes the drag and dropping of tabs into a new window much quicker and much more responsive.

This is a feature that's also in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This will also not make the users unclick the mouse to make tabs into a new window. Please see the video below for more information about this idea.

[ExistingAsUsual]

The lack of this feature is the reason I stopped using firefox in the first place.

It seems like such a small thing but it makes a huge difference in user experience.

[Jon]

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[RenanSantos7]

In Firefox, it's also posssible to do this....

[RenanSantos7]

In Firefox it's also possible to do this...

[jscher2000]

I have seen this mentioned before, that it's difficult to move a tab between two windows in Firefox if you cannot see the tab bar of the destination window before you start the move.

As a Windows person, I find it sometimes works to click and drag the tab down and hover over the Firefox button on the Taskbar until the window list appears, then hover the window I want to move the tab to until it comes into focus, then move the mouse pointer up to the tab bar and drop the tab. But sometimes Firefox won't switch windows.

[roontscoon]

Click and drag of tabs used to work in Firefox, but it no longer does.  I'm not sure which update broke it, but it is now broken.  As jscher2000  stated, you used to be able to drag a tab down to the Firefox logo in the taskbar, wait for about a second and it would pop up all the open windows and allow you to then drag the tab onto whichever window you select.  Now when you try to do this, the Firefox logo displays a circle with diagonal slash through it, indicating you can't do this.

I think this functionality got broken when they first allowed us to select multiple tabs.  If you do this and right-click on them (or on a single tab), you get a context menu that allows you to "Move" the tab(s) to a New Window, but not to an existing window of your choice.

This is a shame because the tab dragging to a different existing window capability was a terrific one.  It would have been especially useful when being able to select multiple tabs.

Fix, please?

[bartoosk]

Just wanted to pop in here and say that I was switching to Firefox to give it a real try, and the tab drag to new window feature missing is a deal breaker. Shame because the Android app looks good, but gotta sync desktop/mobile.

Uninstalling FF, back to Chrome I go. Let me know when this changes, I'd love to try again.

[CaptainObvious]

Working on macOS Ventura 13.5.2 and Firefox 117.0.1 64 bit. Drag a tab from an existing window to move it to a new window works, but the outline of the new window is very small, so you never know until you let go where the new window is going to fall.  So you invariably have a 2nd action to move the window around in order to fit is where you want it on screen. Requesting an enhancement that the outline (ghost) of the new window should match its size and ultimate location, and not be some tiny little square that has no relation to the size it is going to be. You can compare the Google Chrome and Firefox move tab to new window functionality, and Chrome makes it clear the size and position of the new window before you drop it.

[YingDoge]

That we need this function please.

[eedo31]

That would be awesome

[eedo31]

we need this

[Jon]

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