263006 - When copying a .gif image from inside firefox, the pasted image is completely black.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kilian Valkhof]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When copying a .gif image from inside firefox into another program, the pasted
image is completely black, instead of the gif-image. the same problem does not
occur when trying to do this from IE

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a .gif file from a webpage, copy it using right mouse button and
selecting copy image, and paste it into any other program capable of handling
.gif's (word, paint shop pro)

Actual Results:  
the pasted image will be completely black.

Expected Results:  
it should have copied the image normally.

Comment 1

[Sergey Sokoloff]

WFM: works for me

Image: http://stat.livejournal.com/img/btn_del.gif

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Firefox/0.10.1

Tested in several applications -- pasted OK.

Comment 2

[Kilian Valkhof]

yeah, it does work with some .gif images, but if you look at the gif images used
at that site (www.nuclearweaponarchive.org) it becomes a black image.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

This is because the image is optimised , with save and open in an application
you can view it