502171 - drag and drop from external apps to firefox malfunctions (Drag&Drop of link from Thunderbird 2 to Firefox 3.5)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Jernej]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Drag and drop from external apps to firefox does not work correctly, dragging a link from a email viewed in thunderbird into tab bar of firefox tries to load a double url, in address bar it enters the same link text twice which causes a lot of problems. 
 
I'm using latest firefox 3.5 and thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (20090605) 
 
This is a regression, this worked properly in firefox 3.0. 
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox
2. open a email with link in thunderbird
3. drag the link from thunderbird email into firefox tabs bar
Actual Results:  
url of the link that firefox opens is repeated twice, which causes a lot of problems.

Expected Results:  
the link should load properly in the new tab.

i'm running two separate firefox processes with separate profiles if that affects anything.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

I can confirm.

Data flavor is text/plain and drag data may be like LinkURL\nLinktext (\n separated value).
Then, Firefox will try to open LinkURL and Linktext as url.

In this case, it should be only LinkURL that it is opened.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In addition to comment #1)
> Data flavor is text/plain and drag data may be like LinkURL\nLinktext (\n separated value).

(Drag&Drop from Tb 2/Sm 1 to Fx 3.5 on MS Win)
(a) Drop at <textarea> of an HTML page (\n looks to be kept)
LinkURL\n
Linktext
(b) Drop at Seacrh Box (\n looks to be converted to space)
LinkURL Linktext
(c) Drop at URL Box(\n looks to be omitted)
LinkURLLinktext

Confirming.

Both Search Box & URL Box is <input> type(single line box). Improvement of (b) produced problem of (c) at URL Box?

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

If the flavor is text/plain, then this is a Thunderbird bug. Can somebody reproduce this with Tb3?

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

If Drag of a link in HTML mail from Tb 3(2009/7/06 build on MS Win), only LinkURL was displayed at any of (a), (b), (c) in comment #5.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

-> invalid