230619 - hangs on drag & drop local files into browser window or message window

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Nina Cording]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

This happens mostly when I'm just in the middle of writing an email,
so the message composer window is open.
Then I try to drag'n drop a file (maybe a jpeg for the email I'm currently
writing) into the message composer window, or into the browser window to get a
preview.
If I do this, Mozilla hangs. No crash message, I have to kick it out with the
Taskmanager.
Sometimes, it seems that Mozilla already hangs when the image I'm trying to drag
even touches the Mozilla-Window, with the left mouse button still pressed.

Now something from the Twilight Zone:
If I restart Mozilla afterwards, in the same Windows session, this bug does not
appear again. It only happens when Mozilla is started for the first time after
booting Windows.
This bug has been bothering me since Mozilla 1.4.x and is still active.
It's really nasty, because it always happens when I'm writing mails, so very
often, I forget about the bug and lose all the text I've written so far.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Windows ME
2. Open the message-composer (ctrl-m)
3. Drag an image from the desktop into the message-composer

Actual Results:  
Mozilla hangs.

Expected Results:  
Inserting the dragged image into the email.

Theme: pinball
Programs in Background:
apache 1.3.29
php 4.3.4
mysql 4.0.13
emule 0.30c
el (mixer for dsp24value)
nero drivespeed
zonealarm
internet dsl client

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

this has recently been reworked in bug 83803, can you try again using latest
nightly build ?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Nina Cording]

Maybe I'll do this.

But the bug you mentioned was about dragging things FROM the attachment TO the
desktop.
In my case it doesn't work the other way round:
I want to drag FROM the desktop TO the message window.

It even works once Mozilla has crashed before, but not after a fresh start.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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