Note

• This is happening for previously downloaded files dragged into the address bar from the Download panel, so low severity

Affected versions

• 96.0a1 2021-12-03

Affected platforms

• Win 10 64-bit
• Mac OSX 11.6.1

Steps to reproduce

1. Open link and perform a few downloads so that the Download Panel is not empty
2. Select a download from the panel and drag it into the tab bar.

Expected result

• The file is downloaded again

Actual result

• Old download prompt ("What should Nightly do with this file") is displayed

Regression range

• Not a regression

Additional notes

• If I open the context menu for a downloaded file in the Download panel and select Copy download link, and then perform Paste and Go in the address bar, it will download the file again without opening the modal, so I'm filling this bug for consistency reasons. Same thing happens (no modal) if a file (from the link provided at step 1) is dragged directly onto address bar.

I actually think this is expected. Dragging the download does the same as dragging a local file. We prompt for local files because automatically downloading again (ie creating another copy of the same file in the default downloads directory) is not usually what users want.

I think we should close this as WFM. Molly, thoughts?

Well, if I'm interpreting things correctly, I do think there's a UX issue here. Namely, if the purpose of the modal in this case is to make sure the user really wants another copy of the file, we don't make it terribly clear that that's the question we're asking. I'm not sure how you're supposed to tell at all from the flow that we have here that that's what you've done, in fact.

I'm not saying we need to raise the severity or the priority, because this is a very minor issue and wontfix'ing it might actually be the right call. But I don't think it's just a total non-issue either; there's probably ways this could be improved.