How do I disable tearaway tabs?

I just upgraded to firefox 4.0 and had forgotten about the tearaway tabs feature (because I had installed an extension that disables it in 3.X that didn't port into 4.0). I've seen a large number of people talk about having a way to turn it off since it was implemented, and I'm hoping that in 4.0 they've given us a way; but I can't seem to find it.
Please, please, please, how do I turn this off? I use a Wacom tablet and very frequently I end up tearing away tabs when I intend to select them, and it is incredibly annoying.

Unfortunately, you mostly see posts from those who don't like tear off tabs. Posts about that have declined drastically since it first appeared as a possible "bug". As I said, most users now consider it a feature. Just be careful about moving your mouse when you are on a tab with the left-click mouse button pressed.
If there were on-screen prefernces for everything, it would be too cumbersome for users. Any new hidden preferences would just make the prefs file grow as well as the under-lying code to support those.
Keep watching that Mozillazine link that I posted. Alice is very active in the threads for her extensions on Mozillazine and she will post in that thread when an update to
'''''bug489729 (Disable detach and tear off tab''''' is available for Firefox 4.

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