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New Tabs Randomly Moved To New Window, Why?

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Mr Soda
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Upon opening a new tab it will sometimes get moved to a new window. Just now as a matter of fact I was opening 4 new tabs in succession. When I opened the final fourth one I clicked back to the main tab (#5) & immediately all following tabs were moved to a new window. Why does this sometimes happen & is any 1 else having the same problem???

Upon opening a new tab it will sometimes get moved to a new window. Just now as a matter of fact I was opening 4 new tabs in succession. When I opened the final fourth one I clicked back to the main tab (#5) & immediately all following tabs were moved to a new window. Why does this sometimes happen & is any 1 else having the same problem???

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Matt Brubeck
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If you drag a tab away from the tab bar, it will "tear off" and become a new window. Could it be that you are accidentally the dragging the tab slightly when you click on it?

cor-el
cor-el
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bug489729 (Disable detach and tear off tab):

Mr Soda
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How do I disable tab tear off?

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Install the add-on which cor-el hyperlinked.

wolfeyes
wolfeyes
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Okay, so how do you get the dang window BACK to the tab position??

cor-el
cor-el
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You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window.
You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.