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1) Is there a way to disable drag and drop of tabs in firefox and only enable it when I drag tabs while holding the control button?

2) A way to undo the last drag and drop using a keyboard shortcut?

I searched online but all I can find is the add-ons to lock tabs and such. Thank you very much for any help

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  • Is there a reason you don’t want to use the addons?
    – Ramhound
    Jan 29, 2020 at 12:02
  • well, I don't really want to use an add-on for such a small task as add-ons are usually full of bloat and will provide a million other features other than this single feature. I was looking for something along the lines of editing about:config or some other internal settings file if possible. but if that's not possible and u have any good add-on suggestion which could help me with this then please feel free to let me know. Any help is better than no help. :)) I really appreciate any help given. Thank You.
    – Nick
    Jan 29, 2020 at 12:17

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Without using plug-ins there is not a way to prevent tab dragging in Firefox, or to limit it to only dragging when a key is pressed.

A brief web search made this clear and also pointed out a few plug-ins that may work. We don't recommend software products here though. Just do a quick web search though and you'll find any plug-ins that do this.

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    "Without using plug-ins there is not a way to prevent tab dragging in Firefox" -- there's the about:config preference browser.tabs.allowTabDetach
    – user198350
    Jan 27, 2021 at 15:10
  • "plugin" doesn't refer to addons developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/Plugins and they have separate page in about:addons
    – user198350
    Jan 27, 2021 at 15:15
  • OP doesn't want to globally disable, but to set a control factor that prevents it from occurring just with a mouse click.
    – music2myear
    Jan 27, 2021 at 15:16
  • "plugin" and "add on" are synonymous in general use unless context indicates otherwise. If you have an answer, post it.
    – music2myear
    Jan 27, 2021 at 15:17
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    Posted an an answer, hopefully acceptable even though the question isn't fully addressed.
    – user198350
    Jan 27, 2021 at 15:21
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You can set the preference browser.tabs.allowTabDetach to false in about:config, but sadly I'm not aware of a way to only enable the functionality when holding a key.

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