Comments on: Week in Geek: The Disable Firefox 3.5 Tab Tearing Edition

By: peter

peter — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:29:11 +0000

doesn’t work for me. followed directions to a T, disabled detatch tab… no change

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:28:37 +0000

Thanks. I hate this feature! I accidently “tear” tabs all the time. It disorients me and I’ll a professional web developer. Who knows what it does to inexperienced users. This feature flunks usability concerns!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:40:17 +0000

An update on dragging tabs to other instances: I just noticed that with version 3.5, I can drag tabs into other Firefox instances by dragging & dropping the tab onto the tab bar of the other Firefox instance, and the page loads there. What I used to be able to do is to drag a tab into the page view area of the new Firefox instance, and the page would open there. When I do that with version 3.5, though, the page opens in a brand-new instance of Firefox. And the tab disappears from the instance I dragged it from, which is also different from version 3.0.

I like the tab dragging behavior of the previous version, as I don’t like having the tab bar showing when I only have one page open.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:16:33 +0000

In Firefox, I used to be able to drag a tab onto another instance of Firefox, and the other instance would load that page. Firefox 3.5 no longer allows that. In Firefox 3.5, when I drag a tab onto another instance of Firefox, it just loads the page in a brand-new instance rather than the one I dropped the tab onto. Is there any way to get the old drag-and-drop behavior (between instances) back? That bug489729 add-on didn’t help me there. And why did Mozilla change that anyway?

By: superhobo

superhobo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:08:33 +0000

I want to disable it because I drag and drop tabs down to it’s own page to refresh.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:03 +0000

@Amr: Wacom tablet + FF3.5 in Mac OSX. I’m constantly ripping my tabs out on accident.

By: Aoi_sora9x

Aoi_sora9x — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:40 +0000

@Amr: there are ppl who need the feature… so yah? just because u dont need the feature doesnt mean that it is unnecessary… i mean, there are people who want to disable tab browsing in FFx because of some technical/personal reason (i.e. dont want to waste bandwidth, there are still ppl using dial-up connection around)

By: Tonino

Tonino — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:03 +0000

I for one would love to disable it because I trigger it accidentally every now and then and I really don’t use it.
However, I’m not doing it with an extension.
I will when it can be done with a setting ot in about:config.

By: Amr El-Helw

Amr El-Helw — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:01:21 +0000

I’m not sure as to why anyone would want to “disable” this feature? I mean, if you don’t want to create a new window out of a tab, then.. just don’t. Why the need to install an add-on to disable it?

Does this feature use up more resources or something, and disabling it frees these resources? But then again, even if this is true, install a new add-on will certainly use up more resources. So, again, I’m not sure why this is a good idea. Am I missing something?