288224 - Copy-and-pasting a raw image page yields inapproprate text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam D. Moss]

If I visit an image URL, say http://icculus.org/~aspirin/pic/dsc00136.jpg and
then drag-select the image in question, pasting the resulting text results in
the text: 'The image http://icculus.org/~aspirin/pic/dsc00136.jpg cannot be
displayed, because it contains errors.' being pasted.  This seems really
inappropriate.

The expected result is a blank paste-string, or perhaps simple the raw URL of
the image in question.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 279270 "When right-clicking images, "copy image" copies the image 
location, not the image", though I am not sure that this applies to your 
platform and version.

Comment 2

[Adam D. Moss]

Yeah, I don't think that's relevant (pretty sure there isn't even a standard way
to copy images under X11, though that would probably be the right thing to do if
there was).

Comment 3

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

WFM on 21.0a1 (2013-02-19).