Firefox: while drag-n-drop tabs, the new location indication arrow gets hidden by the dragged tab

Bug #853867 reported by Ahmed Shams
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Mozilla Firefox
Confirmed
Unknown
One Hundred Papercuts
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

As a normal geek, after 1 minute of using a browser, firefox, I have tens of tabs. It happens that I need to rearrange these tabs, so I can move among them faster and to keep some sanity.
The problem is: while drag-n-drop'ing a tab, I got a small nice arrow that should be indicating where that tab will be seated, that arrow, in fact, appears beneath the Tabs row, so the arrow gets hidden be the captured tab and I can't see if that arrow really exists or not and where it is, which makes me try to move the tab(while still captured) around the line between the two future-neighbour-tabs to see if that arrow does exist. Firefox sometimes, doesn't recognize that I'm actually moving a tab or it just gets stuck, that's why I need to see the arrow.
Please make that arrow appear above the Tabs row while drag-n-drop'ing Tabs. Thanks.

Ahmed Shams (ashams)
summary: - Firefox: while drag-n-drop taps, the new location indication arrow gets
- hidden by the dragged tab in most cases
+ Firefox: while drag-n-drop tabs, the new location indication arrow gets
+ hidden by the dragged tab
description: updated
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Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote :

You will need to file to bug upstream also: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

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In , Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote :

Below is the extract for launchpad bug description: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/853867

As a normal geek, after 1 minute of using a browser, firefox, I have tens of tabs. It happens that I need to rearrange these tabs, so I can move among them faster and to keep some sanity.

The problem is:
while drag-n-drop'ing a tab, I got a small nice arrow that should be indicating where that tab will be seated, that arrow, in fact, appears beneath the Tabs row, so the arrow gets hidden by the captured tab and I can't see if that arrow really exists or not and where it is, which makes me try to move the tab(while still captured) around the line between the two future-neighbour-tabs to see if that arrow does exist. Firefox sometimes, doesn't recognize that I'm actually moving a tab or it just gets stuck, that's why I need to see the arrow.

Please make that arrow appear above the Tabs row while drag-n-drop'ing Tabs. Thanks.

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I've just tested this on 12.04 and was able to see the arrow beneath the tab at all times. Is this behaviour satisfactory or have I missed something here?

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Since there has been no response either here or upstream, and since comment #3 would indicate that this is not an issue, I'm closing this report.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in firefox:
importance: Medium → Unknown
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