242204 - Allow drag and drop from the download manager for completed downloads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 462172

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[athakur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040412 Firefox/0.8.0+ (djeter)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040412 Firefox/0.8.0+ (djeter)

Having to ability to drag and drop completed downloads from the Download Manager
into an application would be a great convenience enhancement.  For example, in
my "Steps to Reproduce" I use an example of downloading an audio file and trying
to enqueue it in Winamp.  I know I can use "Open" to open it in Winamp but
this'll clobber the current playlist.  If I can drag and drop it into the
playlist instead it'll just get added to the playlist.

This would also be useful for opening files that have unknown extensions.  If
you download a text file with an odd extension and already have a text editor
open, you can just drag it into your text editor instead of having to go through
the Windows dialog box asking how to open the file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download an audio file
2. When the download completes, try to drag it into Winamp's playlist

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The downloaded file should get added to the playlist.

Comment 1

[athakur]

Forgot to mention that there are similar bugs for Camino (bug 230320) and the
Mozilla suite (bug 192728).

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Yeah, this would be a really nice feature. Probably not for 1.0, though.

--> NEW

Comment 3

[James Darpinian]

This feature would be awesome, it gets my vote.  If it went in, I would also
want the ability to set the download manager to automatically download files
only to the cache (like it does when you have it set to "open" files, except all
the time).  Then files wouldn't clog up my downloads folder unless I decided I
wanted to drag them there, after downloading and viewing them.

Comment 4

[Hans-Andreas Engel]

The corresponding bug for Seamonkey (Application Suite) is Bug 192728.

Comment 5

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

I've wanted this for ages and finally thought to find the bug on it, and now I'm subscribed.

This would be fantastic, and the most interesting thing is I wanted it for the exact same reason as was given in comment 0.

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 339068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Andrés Delfino]

This would be a really nice feature to show as a new in Firefox 3, nominating as blocker.

Comment 9

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I'm sorry, but we are feature complete.  This is *way* to late in the cycle for new features in the download manager.

Comment 11

[Gregory Beauregard]

I think this really needs to be added by Firefox 3.6, it should "logically" be there anyway.

Comment 12

[Gregory Beauregard]

Nominated as blocking on the basis of this:
[P2] support file management tasks (delete, move, etc) in download manager 

From here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Namoroka

Comment 14

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Taking.  I have a rough implementation of this that I'm working on.  This will depend on some platform enhancements too, marking appropriately.

Comment 15

[Phil Lacy]

This is an earlier bug but there's a patch on 462172 so I duped this one.

Comment 16

[DavidGarza]

I am running firefox 12.0.

This is not a duplicate of bug 462172 - that bug is fixed, you can drag and drop from the downloads window to a folder and it will copy the file to that location. Works!

But when I download a MP3 file and then drag it from the downloads window to a foobar2000 playlist nothing happens. I have to open the files location and then drag the file into the playlist. 

This bug is not resolved!!!