1294393 - Download panel drag-drop broken in Firefox 48.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1287823

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[sxc731]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Build ID: 20160728204513

Steps to reproduce:

0. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop with Firefox 48.0
1. Download a document by clicking on a button (described behaviour was reproduced with a PDF and a '.epub' ebook) 
2. Click on "Save File" in the Firefox download dialog.
3. The download proceeds successfully.  
4. I now want to move the download to a separate location on the filesystem by clicking on the download arrow in the toolbar and drag-dropping the file into my home directory using the OS file manager (Ubuntu's "Files" application which, I understand, is a rebrand of Gnome's Nautilus).


Actual results:

Instead of my file being moved or copied to the target location, I get a weird text file, titled: "file:---home-<myUserName>-Downloads-<downloadFileName>..txt".  The content of the text file is "file:///home/<myUserName>/Downloads/<downloadFileName.epub>"



Expected results:

In Firefox 47.0 and previous version, the downloaded file gets copied or moved (not sure which, doesn't really matter) verbatim to the chosen target location.  This is therefore a regression in Firefox 48.0

Comment 1

[:Paolo Amadini]

Thanks for reporting! It seems that a similar issue is being discussed in bug 1287823.