Dragging a single word from a tab to another tab causes the browser to try to navigate to that word
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(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)
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(Reporter: mayankleoboy1, Unassigned)
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Open 2 windows in the browser
Adjust the two windows such that they both are in the foreground
Open example.com in both the windows/tabs.
Drag a SINGLE word (e.g. "domain") from tab1 to inside tab2
AR: In tab2, the browser tries to navigate to "http://domain"
ER: Not so.
Chrome does the expected behavioir here.
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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At least for the Address Bar, this is an expected behavior, as a malicious site may convince the user to drop a string on the urlbar to spoof a website.
If the final behavior requested here is to put the string in the urlbar but don't navigate to it, that may be unsafe.
If otherwise is to prevent dropping, no concerns, the user could still force the navigation dropping on the urlbar.
If you drag the word into the title bar or address bar, the result is a search for that word using the default search engine. (The same occurs if you drag a selection containing multiple words.) This seems correct.
However, if you drag the word into the content area (viewport), the reported behaviour occurs. If you drag a selection containing multiple space-separated words here, nothing happens.
The expected behaviour (I would have thought) would be a search for the word or phrase in all cases.
(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] (away Aug 5-12, Aug 19-21) from comment #2)
At least for the Address Bar, this is an expected behavior
The current behaviour upon dragging to the address bar is not the erroneous navigation to http://word (which I don't think should be expected), but to the search engine, and seems corect. This bug concerns the behaviour when dragging to the main content window, which is different and not as expected.
Worth noting that I have separate URL and search bar. Behaviour might be different with combined URL/search.
a malicious site may convince the user to drop a string on the urlbar to spoof a website.
I don't understand how.
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