253816 - (text) URLs (not links) cannot be drag&dropped into the download window, but on tabs or into another firefox windows

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Norbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040730 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040730 Firefox/0.9.1+

- select a URL in the adress bar or on a web-page (not a link, just a text that
has URL-format)

- drag&drop it into another tab for example: it works :-)

- open the download window and try

- again select the URL-text

- try to drag&drop the URL into the download window:

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
The cursor gets drop-style. But nothing happens. It won't be added to the
download list!

Expected Results:  
It should be downloaded.

Comment 1

[Norbert]

(In reply to comment #0)


typing error:
"- open the download window and try" -> "- open the download window"

Comment 2

[shadytrees]

It seems that this only occurs with links that don't have a MIME type that
Firefox can handle (EXE files, PLEX files, et cetera). That, and anything that's
not a link. For example, dragging and dropping:
http://www.xchat.org/files/binary/win32/xchat-2.0.9.exe

When it's a link seems to work, but not when it's general text. Otherwise, I can
confirm this.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

Yep, confirming on 0.10.1/WinXP.

Comment 4

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

I can't reproduce this on trunk: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091015 Minefield/3.7a1pre

Please reopen if you can still see this.