412766 - Cannot paste into a file upload field (input type=file)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 356071

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Bertram Franz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2

I want to paste the location of a file to be uploaded into a web form, relevant code piece of it:

<table><tbody id=files>
  <tr><td><input type=file size=50 name=file1 class=hf_file>
</tbody></table>

But the middle mouse button here is simply ignored.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mark any text using the mouse
2. Try to paste it using the middle mouse button into the field described in the details

Actual Results:  
Paste operation is ignored

Expected Results:  
The file location is put into the field.

This is a 32-bit firefox on a x64 Suse 10.3.

Comment 2

[Bertram Franz]

Why do you want to remove that field? Using the browse button and the File Upload dialog is so awkward (especially with the strange autocompletion that is in there currently).

I think, this dialog is a workaround for the missing paste functionality, not a solution.