236058 - Does not copy correct image URL when 'copy image location' selected from context menu or when attempting drag and drop

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Jennifer]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When clicking on the large image in this page to copy the URL to the clipboard,
the browser instead copies 'http://www.tirerack.com/images/trans.gif' to the
clipboard instead, no matter where on the image the click is performed. Viewing
source shows the trans.gif and the large image both listed, and Document
Properties sees both, but the context menu does not respect user expectation
that the URL to large image be copied.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit URL, right-click on image, select Copy Image Location
2. Switch to another app and select Paste


Actual Results:  
Incorrect URL copied to clipboard, browser does not respect notion that user may
not want to copy topmost image but may want bottom-most one instead

Expected Results:  
Presented two menu items instead of one, choice of which image URL to copy
("Copy URL (trans.gif)" as one menu item and "Copy location
(co_xtreme_contact_1000.jpg)" as another) - OR - make it possible to drag and
drop image from Document Info window or allow context menu for images to appear
when right-clicking image in Document Info window

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

The page has the trans.gif image positioned over the tire image, apparently to
stop people from stealing it. It's stupid and annoying and easy to work around,
but on the site's part--what Mozilla is doing is correct.

Comment 2

[Jennifer]

(In reply to comment #1)

> but on the site's part--what Mozilla is doing is correct.

It should be better classified as an RFE instead of a bug - I don't know if I
should do that (?), but I think this would be a handy new UI feature to have. It
would also be handy for, for instance, copying the URL of pages' background images.