Closed Bug 752625 Opened 12 years ago Closed 6 years ago

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

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop
Version:
5 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 939319

People

(Reporter: mikeperry, Unassigned)

Details

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.
Component: Untriaged → Drag and Drop
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: untriaged → drag-drop
I think this bug can be resolved as a duplicate of Bug 939319.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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