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Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97

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This morning, I did my normal apt-get update/upgrade, and this brought
in a new version of google-chrome-stable

ii  google-chrome-stable 97.0.4692.71-1 amd64        The web browser from Google

After restarting in the new version of Chrome, I am unable to move
tabs around within a window.  Any attempt to drag a tab to the left or
the right immediately causes the creation of a new window, with the
tab that I was trying to move inside the new window.

>From there, if I right-click the offending tab inside the new window,
there's an option to "Move tab to a new window".  I can use this to
send the tab back to its original window -- but now it's on the far
right.

I googled (ironically) the problem, and of course because Chrome 97 is
so new, there are no useful pages in the search results yet.  The nearest
I found were some older reports of similar issues.

One thread reported this happening under Xwayland.  I am not running
Wayland.  Pure X11.

Another thread reported this happening if a hardware device (such as a
keyboard, microphone, or audio headset) was sending events.  I ran xev
to verify that there were no incoming events.  I also tried unplugging
and re-plugging my USB keyboard.  I finally tried unplugging my USB
microphone/camera.  Neither of those helped.

(While re-plugging the USB mic/camera, I accidentally pressed the power
button and turned my computer off.  I'm pleased to report that the GRUB
issue I had last time I booted did not occur this time -- the keyboard
worked in GRUB, and I was able to reboot without a 2 minute wait.  Sadly,
the reboot did not fix the Chrome tab dragging issue.)

I know this isn't the *best* place to ask for help with proprietary
browsers, but this is a pretty popular one, so there's a chance.  Has
anyone else encountered this problem?  More importantly, does anyone
know how to *fix* it?

Being unable to rearrange tabs in a sane manner is EXTREMELY irritating.

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Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-05 15:20 +0100
  Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-05 16:30 +0100
    Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-05 17:10 +0100
      Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-05 18:20 +0100
        Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-05 19:00 +0100
  Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 17:20 +0100
    Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-05 18:00 +0100
  Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 18:10 +0100
  Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 18:20 +0100
    Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-20 13:30 +0100

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