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When I drag a link into a neighboring tab, how do I prevent Firefox from moving me into the new url?

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When I drag a link from tab #1 into tab #2, (Firefox 3.6.6) my browser window automatically shifts to tab #2. I've noticed that dragging into the lower portion of neighboring tabs is supposed to prevent this, but it's hit-or-miss. How do I kill this "feature" so that I can simply drag and drop while staying on the original page?

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Every time Firefox opened

== Several versions ago.

When I drag a link from tab #1 into tab #2, (Firefox 3.6.6) my browser window automatically shifts to tab #2. I've noticed that dragging into the lower portion of neighboring tabs is supposed to prevent this, but it's hit-or-miss. How do I kill this "feature" so that I can simply drag and drop while staying on the original page? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Several versions ago.

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cor-el
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No, you can't avoid that. The purpose is that you can drag text or a link from one tab to a text area in another tab and to achieve that the tab must be opened and focused.