Rearranging tabs in apps resizes windows

Bug Reports
1

Describe the bug

The most recent release (1.9.8) includes the following new feature:

  • Improved ability to drag tabs in many apps and immediately resize them

This feature works great, but it works a little too well. There are two situations that involve dragging tabs in apps like Chrome:

  1. Converting a tab into a separate window
  2. Rearranging the order of tabs in a single window

In situation 1, I would like to be able to immediately resize the window, and this feature works great for that. However, in situation 2, I would not expect the window to be resized just because I changed the order of tabs. I have custom snap areas near the top left corner of my window, and at the moment I have to re-resize my window every time I change the order of tabs in Chrome.

Affected input device

Mouse

Screenshots

N/A

Device information

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro (Reinta, 13-inch, Early 2013)
  • macOS version: 10.15.7 (Catalina)
  • BetterSnapTool version: 1.9.8

Additional information

Only workaround at the moment is to disable my custom snap areas. Is it possible to disable this new feature? While I would love to use it in situation 1, I would rather not use it at all in order to avoid situation 2.

2

I’ll add an option to disable it!

3

Thanks! Is it possible to disable only for situation 2, or is there no way to differentiate between situations 1 and 2 internally?

4

I can add an option to only allow it for standard snap areas, not for custom ones - but BST can’t recognize whether the tab is just being dragged around or whether it’s dragged into a new window - it only records the start and end of a drag.

5

Thanks, that's unfortunate. Yes, an option to disable this feature would be helpful. I may also decrease the height of my custom snap areas so that it doesn't overlap with application tabs.