Open Bug 1948388 Opened 8 days ago Updated 21 hours ago

Dragging images from google images to some other applications (like Photoshop CC and Preview) doesn't work (or drags a URI)

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Cocoa
Platform:
Unspecified
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Project Flags:
Webcompat Score 6
Webcompat Priority P2
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox137 --- affected

People

(Reporter: emilio, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: webcompat:platform-bug, webcompat:site-report, Whiteboard: [webcompat:sightline])

User Story

platform:windows,mac,linux
impact:feature-broken
configuration:general
affects:all
branch:release
diagnosis-team:dom
user-impact-score:450

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ipcfqs/drag_and_drop_into_adobe_photoshop_cc_issue/

This might or might not be the same as bug 652197, so filing a new bug since that one doesn't have much relevant context.

Things that are interesting to test:

  • Try to reproduce it (I don't have Photoshop so something that I could test would be appreciated).
  • Might be a regression, would be worth to run mozregression on it.
  • Dragging from the actual image document (so, open image in new tab then drag).
  • Might be bug 1437126 (does it happen with dom.events.dataTransfer.imageAsFile.enabled=true?)

At a glance, the same thing seems to work in Windows (though I dropped into MS Paint rather than Photoshop so could be related to how Photoshop reads the drag data).

Cc'ing some relevant folks (apart of the CC list from bug 652197).

Ah, bug 652197 comment 16 says this also repros in Preview. So that should be testable.

Summary: [macOS] Dragging images from google images to some other applications (like Photoshop CC) doesn't work (or drags a URI) → [macOS] Dragging images from google images to some other applications (like Photoshop CC and Preview) doesn't work (or drags a URI)
Webcompat Priority: --- → ?
Keywords: webcompat:platform-bug

I can reproduce this issue using Preview. Dropping an image from Firefox onto the Preview produces the error "This file can't be found". Dragging the same image in Safari and dropping on the Preview app in the dock works.

Might be bug 1437126 (does it happen with dom.events.dataTransfer.imageAsFile.enabled=true?)

This makes no difference. The pref is purely related to images when dragging inside Firefox.

URL: https://www.google.com/
User Story: (updated)
Webcompat Priority: ? → P2
Webcompat Score: --- → 6
Keywords: webcompat:site-report

This seems to affect other desktop OSes.

Summary: [macOS] Dragging images from google images to some other applications (like Photoshop CC and Preview) doesn't work (or drags a URI) → Dragging images from google images to some other applications (like Photoshop CC and Preview) doesn't work (or drags a URI)
Whiteboard: [webcompat:sightline]

This seems to affect other desktop OSes.

On Windows, if I drag a JPEG or PNG from Firefox to an image editor such as Photoshop Elements or Windows Paint, the receiving program shows a random-looking file name with a .bmp extension. This could be related to how Firefox populates the image onto the clipboard(?) -- i.e., bitmap data only, not the actual file? -- or it could be caused by a preference of Windows or the receiving program to paste/transfer the bitmap data rather than the file.

(I have Windows set to show common file extensions, in case that makes any difference. MSKB)

(I opened the image editors first and dropped into the document area. Windows does not allow dropping images on Taskbar buttons, which I guess would be the closest thing to the Mac OS dock.)

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