442446 - To drag and drop tabs for creating web links in desktop it does not work in Kubuntu 8.04

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[vms368]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0

Hi,

While it works in WinXP, in Kubuntu 8.04 it does not work to drag and drop a tab into the desktop, so to create a link to the webpage. Instead, it saves the URL as a text file.   

Regards,
Victor

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag and drop a Firefox 3.0 tab into the desktop of Kubuntu 8.04 
2. It opens a dialog window to choose the name for "contenidos abandonados" (in Spanish).
3. When clicking in the newly created icon, instead opening Firefox to the linked webpage, it opens Kate with the URL of the webpage in it.
Actual Results:  
Don't create a link to webpage, but a text file

Expected Results:  
To create a link to webpage

Sincerely, I don't know how Firefox (still) does not have an option (into the secondary mouse button click options) to create direct access or links to webpages.

To drag and drop tabs to create links to webpages, it works Ok using Konqueror.

Comment 1

[Hideo Oshima]

I can reproduce with recent trunk build with Debian unstable.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090301 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 3

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

With KDE 4.4 and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.12pre) Gecko/20101004 Namoroka/3.6.12pre,
dragging tabs to the desktop now tears them off into a new window (if there was more than one tab in the first window.

Dragging the icon in the urlbar provides the behavior expected here.