Corro said

jscher2000 said

Thank you all for the feedback. A bug was filed for this earlier today. When I learn anything new, I'll update this thread. Until then: Does this still work on your Firefox:

• right-click the image > Copy Image
• right-click the Desktop > Paste

Or is the clipboard also not working correctly (possibly related issue)?

The copy past work, it's jsut the drag and drop that doesn't work anymore :/ !

Yes, This feature still worked for me even when drag and drop wasn't..

I posted on this thread that it is now working and what I did. As of now drag and drop is still working for me.

If it is helpful for bugs, before I posted here.. I did narrow down what I thought was a the problem addon (OpenLorem). So I would enable/disable as needed. but a few updates later, that was no longer working.

You4eea said

I then performed the above steps you suggested, same behavior in the test profile also. BUT... When I went back to about:profiles and deleted that test profile I restarted firefox into my profile drag and drop worked Not sure if that is helpful for narrowing things down, but it is working now.

Thank you for the report.

I read some speculation that the new way Firefox handles profiles in Firefox 67 could possibly be a factor. However, since the way processes are isolated to allow multiple instances of Firefox is somewhat mysterious, I don't know how to investigate further.

I'm not sure how to react right now.... Earlier today, dragging and dropping to desktop didn't work, I tried to drag and drop an url from ff to desktop, in order to check if creating a shortcut on desktop would work, and it worked

So, naturally, I tried to drag a picture from ff to my desktop and it worked....

I just called a priest, I think my PC is in need of an exorcism

Wag669 said

I'm not sure how to react right now.... Earlier today, dragging and dropping to desktop didn't work, I tried to drag and drop a url on desktop, in order to check if creating a shortcut on desktop would work. It worked So, naturally, I tried to drag a picture and it worked.... I just called a priest, I think my PC is in need of an exorcism

I tried that, but I can't even drag and drop a url either...

please also refer to this article in our kb: Drag and Drop errors with Firefox Launcher Process enabled and Windows UAC disabled - How to Fix

Corro said

I tried that, but I can't even drag and drop a url either...

The behavior you are experiencing is identical to that of Firefox Developer Edition 69.0b3 Which I use every time there is a bug in the stable version of FF

It is, as if FF runs in some kind of sandbox, that doesn't allow it to interact with the rest of the Windows OS Let;s hope they fix it soon

philipp said

please also refer to this article in our kb: Drag and Drop errors with Firefox Launcher Process enabled and Windows UAC disabled - How to Fix

My UAC was already on default, it didn't change anything!

but trying tu run firefox in command line with "-no-deelevate".

unfortunately I wasn't able to add this command in the firefox shortcut, it doesn't allow me (or i don't have the right way to write it but i tried several).

So, what i did (to not launch firefox everytime in the command line) :

• go to the "about:config" page
• click on the "i take the risk" button
• search for "launcher"
• double click on it to set is default value to false
• reload firefox

and now it works! thanks for that!

(I hope turning this launcher off won't creat me other problems in the future though).

Corro said

philipp said

please also refer to this article in our kb: Drag and Drop errors with Firefox Launcher Process enabled and Windows UAC disabled - How to Fix

(...)

but trying tu run firefox in command line with "-no-deelevate".

unfortunately I wasn't able to add this command in the firefox shortcut, it doesn't allow me (or i don't have the right way to write it but i tried several).

The -no-deelevate shortcut command did it for me. :) I was also having problems adding it but going into the Advanced... in that same tab and checking Run as administrator fixed it.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Wag669 said

I rolled back to v67.0.4 and drag and drop works fine! Will wait for the bug to be fixed before upgrading I also noticed a strange issue when FF68 goes out of focus and back into focus for a couple of times, but can not replicate it. I just see the tab bar change colors (out of focus -> focus ->out of focus -> focus)

now that the main problem is fixed! I also see that I have that focus problem!

Corro said

Wag669 said

I rolled back to v67.0.4 and drag and drop works fine! Will wait for the bug to be fixed before upgrading I also noticed a strange issue when FF68 goes out of focus and back into focus for a couple of times, but can not replicate it. I just see the tab bar change colors (out of focus -> focus ->out of focus -> focus)

now that the main problem is fixed! I also see that I have that focus problem!

This issue appears randomly after starting FF and I can not replicate it. Also the mouse pointer seems to be lagging some times. Especially if I move the cursor across a page with mixed content and it has to switch from default arrow, to pointer (finger) back to arrow, to I-beam pointer, back to arrow It appears to just stop momentarily, before switching to the new cursor.

bugs bugs bugs

Now it just started Freezing and Crashing for no reason