317770 - Dragging text from an external editor into Firefox causes it to hang

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Dragging text from an extrnal editor like Notepad++ to Firefox does not work.

Dragging to anywhere in the page will result in a message that asks the users if they want to stop running a script.

Dragging the text to a textfield in a form makes Forefox hang, unable to quit, forces the user to kill the process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an text-editor that allows selected text to be dragged, like Notepad++
2. Type some text and try to drag it to a website in Firefox

Actual Results:  
Firefox gives a warning about scripts, continue running scripts will cause it to hang.

If the drop target is a text field Firefox will hang and no lnoger accept any events from the user.

Expected Results:  
When Dragging text to the website nothing should happen, or display it as a text file. Unless it is a URL, Firefox should attempt to open that page.

Dragging text to a textfield should set the text as the value for that field.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051121 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005112104

Works for me when dragging plain text from Notepad. Does this behavior also occur in safe mode ? (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode)

Is it specific to Notepad++ ?

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051124 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005112403

I see this also with Notepad2 and also in 1.0.7.

Comment 3

[John]

I've tested it with the editors Smultron and TextWrangler on Mac OS X, there everything works fine.

I've also tested it on Windows 2000 with Editplus 2 and Notepad++, this works too.

It seems like this only occurs on Windows XP.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Also reproducible with Mozilla 1.8b1, SeaMonkey 1.0a and SeaMonkey 1.5a/20051125.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** Bug 360431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM notepad2 v3.0.20
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2pre) Gecko/20091101 Namoroka/3.6b2pre