234678 - 'send image...' context menu sends the link, does not attach image

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[emmet]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When I choose the menu option <image context menu>->Send image...

the email (created in thunderbird) contains the link to the image NOT an
attachment of the image.

Just to underline the problem -- if I wish to send an image from a webpage that
I can access but the recipient can not then <image context menu>->Send image...
does not work at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Copy Image just got added like yesterday, there was not support for this 
before.  We could probably rework this now that copy to clipboard works on 
Windows, but I'm not sure I like having the menu item action differ across 
platforms.

Comment 2

[emmet]

related bug 205061

Marking blocking 1.0 since this is a significant drop in functionality over
the mozilla suite.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the suite can't send the image using another mail app either, iirc

minusing since this isn't something we can come up with a cross-platform 
solution to at this point (passing an image via a mailto: link is pretty much 
impossible, without using a data: URI, and most mail clients that aren't gecko-
based would choke on that).

Some things can't be done between multiple apps that the suite could do.

Comment 4

[Jon Hall]

I can not believe the lack of a cross-platform solution the only reason this
isn't done. There are already multiple paths supporting features of
Windows/OSX/Gnome in the Firefox and Thunderbird codebases.

Is there any MAPI support currently in Firefox on Windows? If so, would someone
be willing to point me in the right direction on passing messages from the chrome?

This bug needs some housekeeping:
- needs confirmed 
- OS/Hardware changed to all 
- component changed OS integration?

Even without standard support like MAPI on Windows, an extension could still use
an MUA's proprietary interface to compose the message. I know both Outlook and
The Bat can be sent just the filename via DDE. They like different mailto uri
formats though. This just screams for a pref! =)

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 321503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I think we'd need something like bug 251036 to even allow us to do this. Given the cost/benefit ratio (and it not being clear that this is desired in the majority of uses cases), I'm going to mark this WONTFIX.

We may indeed get rid of this menu item entirely, since Marco points out that it is somewhat redundant given "copy image"/"copy image location".