337892 - drag pictures from browser onto dock icons

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jelger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; nl; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; nl; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

I have safari and firefox running on my mac. When using Safari, I noticed that you can drag a picture from the browser directly into the iPhoto icon in the dock, when using Safari. With firefox you have to right-click and save as...I don't know if this is a bug or not an option yet. Would be nice though.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

Behavior confirmed with iPhoto 6.0.5 and Photoshop 7.0.

Interesting aside: both Safari and Firefox give an Aqua + cursor when you drag an image over the library window, but neither app causes an import to happen.

Updating summary to explain this is about the dock icon and not application specific.
Was: Mac: drag pictures from browser into iPhoto (Safari does it)
Now: drag pictures from browser onto dock icons

I suspect this is a generalized case of the wrong type of drag being done.  I haven't looked at this since System-7 promises so somebody else can apply modern knowledge here.  At that time there was a gizmo to watch the event queue for drag events details.

Comment 2

[buovjaga]

Still reproduced. macOS 10.12.2 and FF 50.1

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This WFM on latest Firefox with a png file and loading Photos with it. If there's more specific cases, please file a new bug with details.