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Drag and drop creats a URL link and does not save the image

Asked by paul

Hi there,
In 11.10 if you run firefox and drag an image from the browser to either the desktop or Nautilus instead of the image you get a link to the image. The arrow turns to a hand with a link across it and a file is created like Link to "http://www.anysite.net/images/087782_1.JPG".

Where is this behaviour set ? in 11.04 the default was to copy the image.

You can copy the image into oowriter and other programs, just not the desktop ot Link to Nautilus.

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy firefox

Thanks

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#2

readyp@lxhome:/opt/SSD/home/Ubuntu_11.10_x64/readyp$ uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy firefox
Linux lxhome 3.0.0-15-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 2 17:44:42 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
firefox:
  Installed: 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2
  Candidate: 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
readyp@lxhome:/opt/SSD/home/Ubuntu_11.10_x64/readyp$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Does it work ok as a fresh user?

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#4

No, I just created a user and tried it.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Its a bug then. The new user wil get vanilla settings so it is not your user account settings causing the issue. If you run:

ubuntu-bug firefox

It will start the bug reporting sequence for you.

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#6

Thanks, I have raised a bug

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

Do other browsers work as you expect?

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#9

let me install one

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paul (lxtwin) said : 		#10

Yes Konqueror Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4) works fine.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

I'd add that to your bug. Konqueror is Qt based so will have installed a lot of Qt libs as deps