Drag and Drop Images in Firefox Blank page

Orbmiser · October 28, 2015, 10:37pm

Yep like the subject can’t figure out why I can’t drag and drop jpeg images from Dolphin to Firefox.
I get strange error.

Windows 7 side no issues dragging and dropping images to Firefox.

Thanks!

AJSlye · October 29, 2015, 12:01am

I’ve never tried that. But then again, I don’t care for much for Firefox and remove it first thing, along with Thunderbird, Skype, etc.

Orbmiser · October 29, 2015, 12:49am

U…U…u Don’t use Them? That…That’s Blasphemy!

AJSlye · October 29, 2015, 1:06am

Nope, never have. I prefer Chrome / Chromium, most everything I do is web based and on google services anyway (G-mail, G+, hangouts, etc). Makes it easier to sync my pictures, etc. between my PC, phone, tablet and G+ account.

Anyway, I was thinking about this and the KDE extensions and add-ons to Firefox were originally written for kdelibs4.
Have you tried draging and dropping from dolphin4 into firefox yet?

dolphin4

leszek · October 29, 2015, 8:52am

Did you tried dragging into the adressbar?

Orbmiser · October 29, 2015, 9:00pm

Yep and get this in address bar.

http://楦敬⼺⼯畲⽮敭楤⽡牯浢獩牥䔯䐺瑡⽡湏潧湩╧〲潗歲⽳楐敧湯㈥匰慷浲㈥倰潩敮牥㈥匰畱牡⹥灪൧/.com

I Think the Chinese R Watching Me! :s

Orbmiser · October 30, 2015, 1:03am

Posted in the KDE reddit and this was one of the responses.

AJSlye · October 30, 2015, 1:07am

May I ask what are you trying to drag the image file into exactly (e-mail, forum post, etc.)?

Drag-n-drop in google chrome from dolphin has a crossed out circle and will not drop.
Using dolphin4 however, chrome will load the picture into the new tab.

Like I said before, it might just be a kdelibs4 vs kf5 issue.
Open dolphin4 and do the drag-n-drop again from it.

dolphin4

Orbmiser · October 30, 2015, 1:31am

Yep running Dolphin4 returns to normal behavior of displaying jpeg in browser.
So looks like a transition thing.

Thanks for pinning it down for me.

AJSlye · October 30, 2015, 2:00am

No problem, we just need to wait for firefox, chrome, etc. to talk with kf5 based applications.
I know Firefox doesn’t since it reads kdeglobals from the old kde4 location to determine if it’s set as default browser.
This is why in Netrunner Rolling I have ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals as a symlink to ~/.config/kdeglobals.

This actually solves the same problem for kdelibs4 applications under Plasma 5, as it does for frameworks applications under KDE SC 4:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Configuration