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Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?

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T

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Aug 20, 2019, 2:08:54 AM8/20/19
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Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?

John McGaw

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Aug 20, 2019, 8:38:51 AM8/20/19
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On 8/20/2019 2:08 AM, T wrote:
>drag to new window

Please elucidate. I've never heard of it, at least by that name, and have
never stumbled across it by accident.

WaltS48

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Aug 20, 2019, 8:40:33 AM8/20/19
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On 8/20/19 2:08 AM, T wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?

Have you looked in about:config for any preferences with "drag" in the name?

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Aug 20, 2019, 8:52:57 AM8/20/19
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He may mean the action of moving a tab horiz. and accidentally moving it
vertically and it creates a new window. I don't know what it is called
but when it happens to me I just drag the window back to the tab row
where I wanted to move it.

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Nobody

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Aug 20, 2019, 11:27:31 AM8/20/19
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:08:43 -0700, T
<ToddMarg...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?

As Walt suggests, there are three settings in 'about:config'...
<apz.drag.enabled>, <apz.drag.initial.enabled>, and
<apz.drag.touch.enabled>.

For me with 68.0.2 on Win 10, all three are set to Ffox's defaults as
'true'.

Maybe toggling one at a time to 'false' will help?

Andy Burns

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Aug 20, 2019, 2:01:21 PM8/20/19
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Nobody wrote:

> As Walt suggests, there are three settings in 'about:config'...
> <apz.drag.enabled>, <apz.drag.initial.enabled>, and
> <apz.drag.touch.enabled>.

which seem to be related to dragging scroll-bars

T

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Aug 20, 2019, 4:56:40 PM8/20/19
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That is it, except on my computer it open a whole new window
with the tab in it by itself. I would like it if it just
went back where it came from

T

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Aug 20, 2019, 4:58:07 PM8/20/19
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On 8/20/19 5:40 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 8/20/19 2:08 AM, T wrote:
>> Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?
>
> Have you looked in about:config for any preferences with "drag" in the
> name?
>

There are severe. I don't think any apply

T

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Aug 20, 2019, 4:58:49 PM8/20/19
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Mine are all in default

John McGaw

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Aug 20, 2019, 5:54:35 PM8/20/19
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No idea how to prevent it but it is simple to drag the tab in the
newly-opened window back to its origin -- the new window disappears when
you do this.

T

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Aug 20, 2019, 6:30:31 PM8/20/19
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WaltS48

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Aug 21, 2019, 3:16:08 PM8/21/19
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Tried "window", "open", or "tab"?

I'm just guessing at terms here.

The best way to disable it for me was to release the mouse button before
moving the mouse.

Mr. Man-wai Chang

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Aug 22, 2019, 10:59:01 AM8/22/19
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On 8/20/2019 2:08 PM, T wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the drag to new window feature?
>

Useful when your mouse's left button started to double-click.... :)

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