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

Re: (Jono here)

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Let me try to make a topics list here, to expand to a larger post later:
1) Absolutely huge target area for a relatively particular feature.
2) Destroys standard drag-n-drop behavior.
3) Hell on smaller monitors.
4) Not easily reversible.
5) Easily confused with another, more commonly useful feature.

yrs--
--Ben