1000690 - I should be able to drag an image from a webpage to the browse button of an <input type=file>

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1437126

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

This works for local files when dragging a native file, but not for images within Firefox.

I commonly have to do the save image as… then browse to select that temporary image on OS X when it would have been much easier to just drag the image from one tab to the browse button of an input type=file of another.

Example use case which I run into:
Use Case 1) Register a business/personal profile on a new website (e.g. Yelp, Google Maps, Facebook, etc.) and you're asked for a logo or profile photo. Often times I don't have the image I want locally but I have it on another website. As a user, the extra step of downloading the image from another site just to upload it again by clicking the browse button seems tedious especially when you have to do this repeatedly.

(On Windows, the workaround is to copy the image location and paste it into the browse dialog and Windows will download it to a temp file for you behind the scenes. I haven't found such a solution on OS X.)

Comment 1

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 2

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

This now works, because of bug 1437126. We treat image data as a Blob now.