1860781 - Copying images to explorer no longer works

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Attachment: copy_paste.gif

Found in

• 120.0b1

Affected versions

• 121.0a1
• 120.0b1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Windows 10
• Unaffected platforms: macOS 12, Ubuntu 22

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a random image and right click it.
2. Select Copy Image context menu option.
3. Go to a random folder inside Windows Explorer and right-click.
4. Click on Paste.

Expected result

• Image is pasted per C1979759 test case.

Actual result

• Paste option is greyed out.

Regression

• Last good revision: 6ce0530618383c2dbe76362aed3b796bb31749ec
  First bad revision: 35622e43aeba2042c84382c6e9e8d632f45d255a
  Pushlog:
  https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=6ce0530618383c2dbe76362aed3b796bb31749ec&tochange=35622e43aeba2042c84382c6e9e8d632f45d255a

Additional notes

• Attached a screen recording.
• Setting clipboard.imageAsFile.enabled: true can copy and paste images from pages to Windows Explorer.
• Per 1854747#c16 this may be intentional. Please close this as invalid if needed and we will modify the test case as well.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

:edgar, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1854747, could you take a look?

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Comment 2

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Yes, this is intentional, and Chrome doesn't support such use case, either.