295323 - drag and drop of URL wants to open www.h.com

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

Description

[gbrinkmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-1)

I have a mail in mozilla-thunderbird that contains a http:// link in its body. I
drag and drop it into a mozilla-firefox window. Sometimes the URL opens
correctly, but sometimes another URL is opened. This other URL is always
"www.h.com".

It seems that the behaviour occurs more often on slower PCs or an high CPU
usage. Also I have found another way of reproducing this behaviour:

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag a link from thunderbird
2. Drop it into firefox, directly followed by another click. (Kind of a
doppelclickdrop)


Actual Results:  
The URL www.h.com is opened

Expected Results:  
The dragged URL (that has not been www.h.com!) should be opened.

workaround: Try to drag and drop the URL slowly. It seems that www.h.com does
occur less often then. Or copy the link location in thunderbird and paste it
into firefox to open the correct URL. Sometimes retrying the drag&drop works.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[gbrinkmann]

This behaviour still occurs with
thunderbird 1.0.6
firefox 1.0.7
on a debian/unstable system.

Especially the 2 steps to reproduce it as described still shows the behaviour.
The only thing that has changed: The URL is no longer opened but a requester
pops up telling me that "www.h.com could not be found. Please check the name and
try again.". (The URL is not reachable any longer)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mats can you reproduce?

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

Comment 4

[gbrinkmann]

The behaviour still shows up in Firefox (iceweasel; debian/sid) version 3.0.9. But the symptoms did change again.

When drag&drop+fastFollowedLeftClick an URL from thunderbird (icedove) to iceweasel the URL "http://h/" is put into the location bar instead of the dragged URL. Firefox does display the page "Address Not Found, etc. ... Try Again"

Greetings,
Gert

Comment 5

[Nate Willis]

This still happens on Firefox 24 w/ Thunderbird 24.  I can also confirm that the problem occurs only after some (multi-second) delay; dragging & dropping a link immediately generally opens the dragged URL correctly, but pausing -- say, long enough to hover over a specific tab -- triggers the faulty behavior.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I've just seen this reported in another bug where, notably, the user reported Firefox being slow

Comment 7

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.