302594 - Can't drag XPIs to Firefox's dock icon

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050728
Firefox/1.0+

Steps to reproduce:
1. Save an XPI to the desktop.
2. Drag it to Firefox's dock icon.

Result: The file snaps back.

Expected: Firefox icon should get darker on drag+hover, and an XPI installation
dialog should appear.

Tested with:
* The attachment on
http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-July/004532.html, renamed to
have an .xpi extension
* The XPI on http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/thumbs/.

Firefox was open when I tested.  I haven't tested with Firefox closed.

Firefox's dock icon does accept text file and HTML file drags.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Josh, Mike, is this something we should allow?

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Just for reference, the following UI mechanisms work for installing XPIs on all
platforms:

 - using the install button in extension/theme manager
 - drag the XPI onto the extension/theme manager
 - drag the XPI into a window/tab
 - "Open File ..." and point to the XPI

(note: dragging the XPI onto the URL bar doesn't work)

Modulo any security concerns that I'm unaware of, I think we should probably
support this behaviour as well as support drag-and-drop of the xpi onto the URL
bar (since we support "Open File ...").

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Just for reference, the following UI mechanisms work for installing XPIs on all
platforms:

 - using the install button in extension/theme manager
 - drag the XPI onto the extension/theme manager
 - drag the XPI into a window/tab
 - "Open File ..." and point to the XPI

(note: dragging the XPI onto the URL bar doesn't work)

Modulo any security concerns that I'm unaware of, I think we should probably
support this behaviour as well as support drag-and-drop of the xpi onto the URL
bar (since we support "Open File ...").

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

As an added data point, without this sort of drag and drop functionality, it's
awfully hard to install XPIs that were downloaded/emailed/landed on the users
file system through some means. Presumably this is because the preferred way of
installing extensions is through addons.mozilla.org, but it strikes me as odd
that the EM has no explicit mechanism for installing from filesystem.

That's a seperate bug, likely. :)

Comment 5

[Patrick]

is this dependent on bug 222185?

Comment 7

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Note: that would have to be handled by a drag and drop handler and likely core -> widget code and not shell integration.