Open Bug 495605 Opened 15 years ago Updated 2 years ago

file-upload should also allow pure text as input (instead of a file)

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(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

x86
macOS
enhancement

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(Reporter: ich, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10

I often have the case that I want to upload some text (often a lot of text, so that I want/haveto attach it as a file) and I would like some easy method to do. Right now, I have to do these really annoying steps:

- Open texteditor.
- Paste text.
- Save file.
- Close texteditor.
- Go back to Firefox.
- Select file in file-dialog.
- Send.
- Open file browser.
- Delete file.

If Firefox could just provide a simple text box where I can paste it, that would be great, it would save all these steps. I guess this text box could perhaps be attached to the file-select-dialog. Or perhaps a small button next to the "open file" button.


Reproducible: Always
This behaviour is unfortunately added on purpose in bug 258875.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Sorry, you didn't understand me. This is different from bug 374011.

I want to enter a text, not a filename. I don't want to upload a filename at all. That's what I wrote in my description. I don't want the unnecessary need of creating a file because that's the whole problem here.

I want to be able to enter a text and upload it as a file.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Component: General → Layout: Form Controls
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → layout.form-controls
Confirming, but I'm really not sure how the UI would work here, nor whether this is a case that is common enough to warrant in-core support.  It's pretty easy to write an extension that would do this (by basically doing the steps in comment 0 itself, with a temporary file).

Mike, do you know who the right UX person to evaluate this is?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
And honestly, I'd think that even if we do this we'd do it at the app level, not the Gecko level...
Severity: normal → S3
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