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> This seems to affect other desktop OSes.

On Windows, if I drag a JPEG or PNG from Firefox to an image editor such as Photoshop Elements or Windows Paint, the receiving program shows a random-looking file name with a .bmp extension. This could be related to how Firefox populates the image onto the clipboard(?) -- i.e., bitmap data only, not the actual file? -- or it could be caused by a preference of Windows or the receiving program to paste/transfer the bitmap data rather than the file.

(I have Windows set to show common file extensions, in case that makes any difference. [MSKB](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/common-file-name-extensions-in-windows-da4a4430-8e76-89c5-59f7-1cdbbc75cb01))
> This seems to affect other desktop OSes.

On Windows, if I drag a JPEG or PNG from Firefox to an image editor such as Photoshop Elements or Windows Paint, the receiving program shows a random-looking file name with a .bmp extension. This could be related to how Firefox populates the image onto the clipboard(?) -- i.e., bitmap data only, not the actual file? -- or it could be caused by a preference of Windows or the receiving program to paste/transfer the bitmap data rather than the file.

(I have Windows set to show common file extensions, in case that makes any difference. [MSKB](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/common-file-name-extensions-in-windows-da4a4430-8e76-89c5-59f7-1cdbbc75cb01))

_(I opened the image editors first and dropped into the document area. Windows does not allow dropping images on Taskbar buttons, which I guess would be the closest thing to the Mac OS dock.)_

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