577534 - Dragging two or more tools from Komodo onto a textarea freezes Firefox

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Eric Promislow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

With any version of Komodo (I went back to 3.5), up to the nightlies,
select two or more tools in the Toolbox, and drag them over a Firefox textarea.
Drop them on the textarea.  On Windows Firefox freezes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Using Komodo Edit is fine.  It's free, with no license issues.

Menu item: [View|Tabs & Sidebars|Tools]

In the toolbox, expand [Samples...|Sample Macros].

In Firefox, go to a web page with a textarea.

Drag one macro from Komodo to Firefox, to verify that single-item
drag/drop works fine.

Now select two macros, and drag them to Firefox.
Actual Results:  
Both applications freeze after the multiple-item drop.

Killing Komodo leaves Firefox frozen, but killing Firefox
frees up Komodo.

Expected Results:  
Some applications (Open Office Writer) refuse a multiple-item
drop, which is fine.

Others (MS Word) print only the first item's data, and throw away
subsequent ones, which is also fine.





In Komodo 6, each tool has at least two flavours, one its text content,
and the other a URI.  Rendering the dropped text as a sequence of
URIs would be acceptable too.

Comment 1

[Eric Promislow]

Ref http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=87343