The world's crappiest UI feature

[benlehman]

I want to write about a new UI "feature" in Firefox 3.5. I want to explain in depth how much it sucks. But I'm jet-lagged to hell, so I'll just say "the thing where you drag a tab into the window that it's in an it opens up a new window with that tab while simultaneously closing the old tab in the old window" is a crappy as hell feature for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which is I have no idea why you'd want to do it in the first place.

Comments

[emergent.livejournal.com]

On the other side of the coin, I have always longed for the feature where you drag a tab off the tab bar and it becomes its own window. Sometimes (commonly) I open things in tabs, then realize later that I want to see them side-by-side instead.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

If it was "drag to somewhere offscreen and it becomes a new window" that would be great and make sense. It's the fact that dragging it into the window itself causes a spawn that's a brutally bad idea.

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--Ben

[russiandude.livejournal.com]

Oh, I misunderstood then. That is kind of dumb, yeah.

[emergent.livejournal.com]

Huh, I stand corrected. I thought it was Safari-style, "drag the tab out of the menu bar, and the place you drag it to just determines where the new window appears." The Firefox version does seem much more retarded.

[salda007.livejournal.com]

You can always Ctrl+N up a new window, then drag the tab over to it. I do it all the time.