Dragging fullscreen window when tabs are in titlebar
In Windows7 the user can drag a maximised window from one monitor to the next by dragging the titlebar. However, Firefox now places tabs in the titlebar. This means that when I try and drag my FF window to the other monitor I end up dragging a tab instead of the whole FF window.
There should really be a few pixel gap between the top of the tabs and the top of the titlebar to allow for dragging the window.
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There are a couple of work-arounds but none of them is very good....
> Restore (un-maximise) the window, then drag and maximise on the other screen
> You CAN drag it full screen if you use the TINY space below the orange FireFox button but above the toolbar - It's a small target but it works if you're precise with the mouse. The same applies to the area under the Minimize/Restore/Close buttons.
> Windows 7 users (Not sure about Vista) can use the keyboard shortcut (Windows Key + Shift + (Left or Right) Arrow Key). This will move the window to the next monitor in the direction of the arrow you pressed. (This works for ANY app).
> Windows XP users can get similar shortcuts and the ability to full-screen drag (with the same issues) by using DisplayFusion - just google it.
(I'm not associated with DisplayFusion but I was a user for years before moving to Win7 and I found it very handy)
Hope this helps someone
Modified by Basiclife
There's an addon which fixes this problem:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extra-padding-when-maximize/
This is really a design bug though, and should be fixed natively.