722670 - drag-and-drop of URLs from the location bar to the download manager fail when the protocol has been trimmed

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Loic]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120130 Firefox/12.0a1
Build ID: 20120130031142

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 12 allows pasting URL directly in the download manager window to download it (see recent Bug 712421).
In addition, drag-and-drop of element of a webpage (images, links etc) to the download manager window is allowed too.

But drag-and-drop of URL from the location bar to the download manager window is still not allowed. So allow this action to be consistent with the other possibilities of downloading.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This works for me. How are you dragging the URL?

Comment 2

[Loic]

My steps:
- I select the URL in the location bar (double click or Ctrl+A).
- I do a long left click on the highlighted URL to drag it
- I drop it into the download manager window

BUT I found my error, I have been abused by another bug.
In fact, if "http://" URL prefix is hidden (browser.urlbar.trimURLs = true, default value), drag & drop the URL from the location bar to the download manager doesn't work.
If browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false, it works like you.

But I fail to find the bug number, I'm pretty sure it's already filled.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Ah indeed, protocol stripping breaks this.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I believe this is fixed by bug 670587 on today's (Aug. 27th) nightly.

Comment 5

[Loic]

Yes, it's fixed. Now, HTTP files/webpages are downloaded when the user drops the URL in the Download Panel or the Download Library.

Comment 6

[[SV Manager] Florin Mezei, QA (:FlorinMezei)]

Marking as verified based on Loic's comment 5.