207782 - Implement Drag Link to same window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[tyl2]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030523 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030523 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Currently it's not possible to easily drag a link to the active tab (this
includes the case where only one tab is open and the tab bar is hidden). One may
want to do this to avoid opening a new browser window when opening a link that
targets _NEW.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag a link but ensure that the mouse remains in the active tab window.
Actual Results:  
The mouse icon changes to the Stop sign, indicating the action is invalid.

Expected Results:  
The action is permitted. The page should load when the mouse button is released.

The current workaround is to drag the link to the Navigation bar and back.
Somehow the action is possible now.

Comment 1

[tyl2]

=> Event Handling.

This seems to be a trivial thing to add, as there's already a 3kb "This Window" xpi.

Comment 2

[tyl2]

Sorry for the bugspam. The xpi is just an alternative for opening links in the
current window, but I still think this is a UI bug where what you can do changes
depending on where your mouse has been.

Comment 3

[tyl2]

Just to clarify, I'm not talking about dragging links to the tab bar. I'm talking 
about dragging links to the current page, like dragging a link and dropping 
it a few pixels off where it is. This should indicate to the browser you want 
to load it in the same tab, but doesn't work until you have dragged it to the 
navigation (back, forward, etc) bar first.

Comment 4

[Rainer Raisch]

It is possible to work around:
Drag the link outside the page and back into. Now you can drop it!

Comment 5

[Rainer Raisch]

the solution to this behavior is found in bug 207782

Comment 6

[Rainer Raisch]

sorry the right bug# is 36867

Comment 7

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