Closed Bug 284321 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Drag and drop text string to viewport goes to google search

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Server 2003
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: waveangle, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 Drag and drop text string to viewport goes to google search. Steps: 1. go to firefox.org (or any url) 2. drag any text string ("junk" will do) to viewport surface, not onto a control 3. ff now goes to google search page on this string 4. the bug is that there is no way to turn off this behavior I know will you close this bug instantly due to your "world view" but it still a bug to me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Steps: 1. go to firefox.org (or any url) 2. drag any text string ("junk" will do) to viewport surface, not onto a control 3. ff now goes to google search page on this string 4. the bug is that there is no way to turn off this behavior I know will you close this bug instantly due to your "world view" but it still a bug to me. Actual Results: Went to google. Expected Results: No action, or page not found error. No way to set behavior.
(In reply to comment #0) > Drag and drop text string to viewport goes to google search. This is probably by design. Can you think of a better way of establishing this UI: I have some text -- I want to do an "I'm feeling lucky" search on it. > I know will you close this bug instantly due to your "world view" but it > still a bug to me. It is not my call, but "remember, bugzilla.mozilla.org is not a support medium, but a tool for testers and developers to organize their work on Mozilla products". There are millions, maybe ten million Firefox users around the world and there must be thousands of forums where ideas can be floated and problems shared.
I see you don't have a fix for it either -- call it a feature then. Let's say I don't want the browser going to any site automatically, there is no setting for this. (Who knows what the hell I may be dragging onto the window, it's none of google's business.) There is nothing in about.config to control it. I've already posted several times to the mozilla groups on this, and the response is usually a variation on, "what's the matter with you", etc. I'm a career programmer for over 20 years, and I think there should be a setting.
(In reply to comment #2) > (Who knows what the hell I may be dragging onto the window, it's none of > Google's business.) Dup of Bug 274773 "Middle-clicking non-hyperlinked areas of a page attempts to load from clipboard" > I'm a career programmer for over 20 years, and I think there should be > a setting. Dup of (for instance) Bug 87402 "Add option to disable window bring-to-front on load" Please have the last word. This report looks INVALID in some form or another.
It's not really a dup of those other bugs, but it's in a similar area. (It's on Windows, and the middle mouse button is a wheel used in scrolling.) It is a security risk, since I first noticed this annoying bug when dragging a password string from my password keeper onto a text box on a page. If you miss the box when dropping the string, your password is sent to google. This is very unexpected and unwanted. I hate having to argue with you guys that this really is a bug -- it's pointless exercise and I will now stop.
Currently when I drag the text ‘test’ from notepad to the Firefox viewport the browser hangs for a while with an infinite loop (which I then get prompted about). Btw, I do think this is a bug too. Only when the text is dragged to the address bar, should it cause a Google query. ~Grauw
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(In reply to comment #5) > Currently when I drag the text ‘test’ from notepad to the Firefox viewport the > browser hangs for a while with an infinite loop (which I then get prompted > about). That is probably a different issue (networking or proxy) and is being worked on elsewhere, see Bug 282276 "Firefox hangs when URL address is a single word" This Report as a whole could be duped against some other bug, but really it is simply INVALID - belongs in mozillazine.
This bug has been confirmed if you read the comments. This is my #1 bug with Firefox, otherwise it's almost perfect. It is not a dup of another bug. You consider drag and drop of text to the viewport (Windows) going to a Google search a "feature". I can live with this, Google pays the bills. I'd like to be able to shut this feature off however, but so far I have found no way to do it. I've had several suggested settings but people should test their suggestions first, they don't work. I think I would have to rebuild the source with edited include files as I think that Google is hardwired into Firefox this way.
I don't understand your request. You want the browser to do _nothing_ when you drag text to it? If so, why are you dragging text to it?
Assignee: firefox → nobody
>> I don't understand your request. You want the browser to do _nothing_ when you drag text to it? If so, why are you dragging text to it? Its a usability issue for me. I drag passwords and other information onto forms and sometimes I miss the input boxes due to the fine motor movements required. It's hard, and it happens a few times a month. When I miss, the text (like my password in clear text) goes to an outside company, in this case Google. All I want to do is turn this forwarding behavior off. The program should not autonavigate to a company site at all if the user doesn't want that. Personally, I don't like search from the address bar either, since I consider navigation and search totally different functions. If I filed a bug on that I'd get no traction. Firefox is almost perfect for me, except for this one flaw. Please make this forwarding a controllable setting.
Ah, I see. Go to about:config, and set the "keyword.enabled" pref to "false". Does that solve your problem?
>> Go to about:config, and set the "keyword.enabled" pref to "false". Does that solve your problem? No, I find that it doesn't. This was the first thing suggested to me on usenet many months ago when I asked about it. Nothing in about:config (so far) seems to have any effect.
(In reply to comment #8) > This bug has been confirmed if you read the comments. This is my #1 bug with > Firefox, otherwise it's almost perfect. It is not a dup of another bug. Waveangle, there are many, many similar complaints. I accept these. I also agree that dragging text to a text box and missing should not send that text to the Great Search Engine (I don't do that with passwords). I am surprised you haven't found a Dupe: you will find many people who agree with you. Unless the Powers That Be come to also agree with you, this is why I think that this report is a Dupe, and the discussion belongs elsewhere. I am also surprised that you haven't found a workaround (that works) or been given a setting to change the behaviour to ignore dragged text (or perhaps have a safety zone round text fields and other legitimate targets), now THAT is a bug!
Just to confirm, with the "keyword.enabled" pref set to "false" you still end up going to Google when you drag text to Firefox?
> Just to confirm, with the "keyword.enabled" pref set to "false" you still end up going to Google when you drag text to Firefox? Yes, still goes to google.
This bug is invalid. I found that my proxy filter program (Proxomitron) was doing keyword searches to Google. I discovered this the hard way by downloading ff1.5 source, changing every string instance of "google.com" to something else, and building a copy locally. I have now discovered the drag service in firefox, and would like to enable it only for edit boxes in pages, the rest of the page area should be dead (my preference).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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