619966 - Browser (eg Firefox) dock icon should accept local file drag to open

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[smadayag]

* SUMMARY
Users can drop files with extensions .html & .txt onto the Safari icon and they open in a browser window.  Safari also handles other kinds of files (files with .mov, .mp3, .swf extensions), but dragging files with these extensions onto the Firefox dock icon doesn't work. Making the Safari dock icon accept files with extensions / types that it knows what do with would be a very customer friendly enhancement.

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1) Save a fine, quality mp3 file on the local drive (e.g. in Terminal, type in "curl http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/DannyBoy.mp3 -o DannyBoy.mp3")
2) Drag the mp3 file onto the Firefox icon

* RESULTS
Firefox doesn't respond to the file drag/hover

* EXPECTED
Safari opens a new windowand plays the .mp3 file

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Drag & drop was implemented in bug 233712, but it's only a limited set of file-types that are accepted.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/macbuild/Contents/Info.plist.in