Open Bug 1763963 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Image drag and drop don't always work as expected

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Firefox 98
defect

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: fabrice.salvaire, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

Try searching by image on a web app like Bing or Yandex. You should see that sometimes when you drag and drop an image, Firefox opens the image instead to trigger a drag and drop on the web page UI. And when that happens, you can't just go back, you have to reopen the app.

Up to know, I've never figured out why this is happening, I guess it's a bit weird.

Since nowadays, HTML and browsers are used to create UI, it is a great feature to have interference between the business logic of the browser UI and the webpage.

I can understand Firefox reacts to an HTML document drag-and-drop on its window, but why do that for an image. Firefox is not an image viewer.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
Blocks: linuxdad
Priority: -- → P3
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