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> this whole "tab into window" transformation is completely custom made by browsers and also at least somewhat hacky. Would be nice for microsoft to notice and
by George83728 3y ago
> this whole "tab into window" transformation is completely custom made by browsers and also at least somewhat hacky. Would be nice for microsoft to notice and make a 'tab' a native component, and automatically handle transformation
As it is, it never seems to work quite right and is easy to activate accidentally. Dragging a tab slightly downwards in firefox, but not out of the window at all, only out of the tabbar region, will result in that tab being turned into a new window. I would expect new windows to be created only if you drag the tab outside of the current window, but that's not how firefox does it.
This is easy to do accidentally if you are being sloppy with your mousing, and particularly, if you're using a touchpad with libinput which sets "Tapping Drag Enabled" to 1 by default. Tap the tab button, put your finger back down on the touchpad and move the cursor... ooops you just dragged the thing you clicked!