591713 - Can't drag images from web pages into a new message in Mail.app

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Alex Layne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010081818 Camino/2.0.4 (like Firefox/3.0.19)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010081818 Camino/2.0.4 (like Firefox/3.0.19)

When I try dragging an image from Camino into a new message in Mail.app, I get the plus sign, but when I release the image it 'flies' back to where it was, meaning it won't attach.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new message in Mail.app.
2. Drag any image from any webpage into the new message pane. 

Actual Results:  
Image will not be attached to message. 

Expected Results:  
Dragged images should attach to new Mail messages.

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

That seems to work fine on 10.5 with Camino nightly builds (Gecko 1.9.2 based).

On 10.6 this fails. Camino 2.0.4 fails completely. With Camino 2.1a1 (and Firefox 3.6.8 - Fx 4b4): 
- plain text message: the image never appears
- rtf message: a 'missing image' icon appears in the mail message

Nothing appears in Console.

It looks like bogus data is being send, similar to bug 549555.

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Attachment: missing image (screenshot)

Missing image icon appearing in an RTF mail message on 10.6.

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Did this ever work on any Gecko in 10.6?

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

No. At least with Gecko 1.9.1 & 1.9.2 there is _some_ sort of improvement, in that we get a 'missing image' icon in rich text mail messages. Plain text messages still get nothing, though.
Maybe (but that is just speculation) bug 428096 'helped' a little.

(it works from Firefox 2.0, it attaches the image to the email message)

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

FWIW, this wfm in Firefox OSX 10.6 on a latest nightly, using http://302found.tumblr.com/post/1217399754 as a testcase. Is this Camino only?

(proof: http://grab.by/6DYn)

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> FWIW, this wfm in Firefox OSX 10.6 on a latest nightly

How about in a 1.9.x-based Firefox? (I assume by "latest nightly" you meant a Gecko 2.0 build.)

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Yes, same testcase.

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Sorry; works in 3.6.x for me as well is what I meant to say. Latest nightly *did* mean Gecko 2.0pre, but I just tried in 1.9.2 as well.

Comment 9

[philippe (part-time)]

Fwiw, it still does NOT work for me: Camino latest nightly, Minefield latest, Namoroka latest.

http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/missing-image.png (with Minefield latest in the background)

Comment 10

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

beltzner (or anyone else for whom this works): can you download Pasteboard Inspector (http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/User:Julian/Pasteboard_Inspector), open it, drag to there, and then print that window to PDF so that we can see if there's a difference between the flavors for people for whom it works and doesn't work?

Comment 11

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I think this is the same bug described in Chrome here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101110003700760 (it WFM on 10.5, just like this bug)

I also found bug 501644 while I was looking for this one (which describes the old 1.9.0 state of things, pre-HTML pasteboard), where I speculated at the time that putting a promised file first might help; not sure if it really will or not.

Oh, one other thought: is there a 64/32-bit angle to this?  Is everyone using 64-bit Mail and 32-bit Gecko when it fails, and 32/32 or 64/64 when it succeeds?  (I can't believe beltzner's Mac would be so old it's 32-bit only, though.)

Comment 12

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #11)

> Oh, one other thought: is there a 64/32-bit angle to this?  Is everyone using
> 64-bit Mail and 32-bit Gecko when it fails, and 32/32 or 64/64 when it
> succeeds

fwiw, 64bit Mail, 64bit Minefield build(s) here, and it fails (or 64bit Mail, 32bit Camino).

At least with Gecko one can copy paste the image directly…

Comment 13

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Still an issue in Firefox 4 release on 10.6.6.

(From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501644#c7)

Comment 14

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Still an issue in Aurora 12.0a2 on 10.6.8.

Comment 15

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

(In reply to Richard Newman [:rnewman] from comment #14)
> Still an issue in Aurora 12.0a2 on 10.6.8.

For the record, it works fine on 10.7.3.

Comment 16

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Can reproduce in 10.8.2 and 2012-12-02 Nightly.

Comment 17

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

CCing jaws, who was looking at Mac bugs in Dec.

Comment 18

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Still an issue in Firefox 43 on 10.10.5.

Comment 19

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This is WFM on 10.11, with latest Nightly 49.0a1, 20160518030234