752625 - Provide pref/API to prevent Drag and Drop from leaking URLs to the OS

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 939319

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[Mike Perry]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Steps to reproduce:

Tor, JonDoNym, people using SSH/proxies, and probably also Private Browsing Mode users need a way to prevent drag events from leaking to the OS. 


Actual results:

Right now, dragged tabs and images are immediately sniffed by popular Desktop environments such as Mac OS, Unity, and Gnome 3. These environments download and log the URLs that are dragged, even if the drag event happens internally to the browser and never touches the desktop or another app.


Expected results:

There should be some way of keeping drag events internal to the browser, either via pref or API.

Comment 1

[Arthur Edelstein [:arthur]]

I think this bug can be resolved as a duplicate of Bug 939319.