[RESOLVED] Firefox 3.6.3 - dragging links to new tabs

[NickC]

One of the features of Firefox I've used since the beginning is dragging links into a different tab on the tab bar (different from always opening a new tab by CTRL-click).

The weird thing is that on one of my XP machines and one Windows 7 machine, when I drag, the cursor has the title of the link next to it as I'm dragging. This is distracting. On another XP machine, there is just a little square next to the cursor as I'm dragging.

Weird thing is that all 3 machines are running Firefox 3.6.3 with the default theme. Anyone know if there is a setting or a tweak to change this? I don't remember doing anything on the one XP machine that is working the way I want.

[NickC]

Found a solution:

1. In the address bar of Firefox, type about:config - accept the warning message.

2. In the filter, type nglayout.enable_drag_images (should auto-populate as you type). Right-click on that entry and Toggle so that value changes to false

That's it! Weird though - I'm sure I didn't do this on my one XP machine that is working the way I want. In fact, I checked and the above entry is still set to the default of true.

In any case, just wanted to share in case anyone else prefers it this way!