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Firefox 126.0.1 Release Notes (www.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fixed issues with drag-and-drop functionality on Linux.

I thought this was a Wayland issue. In the past (when I was on X11), dragging images out from Firefox into my filemanager worked. Good to see this functionality made a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same, I couldn't find an open issue for this anywhere. Now if they wanna fix the ability to launch executables from Firefox under wayland I'd appreciate that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why would you want your browser to launch executables?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Introducing Windows ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not arbitrarily. I've just had difficulty launching deb and AppImage packages from within Wayland after downloading them. I have to explicitly navigate to Dolphin and launch them. I know what I downloaded, I want to be able to run it from Firefox's download menu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

For anyone that has to wait for their distro package manager before they get this update, here is a workaround for the most annoying bug (losing the ability to drag/re-order tabs in Firefox):

If the bug is present, you will find that drag-and-drop functionality has seized working in Firefox and it is not possible to select and drag drop images, texts, URLs, tabs etc.

4 Either restart Firefox or do the following to restore drag-and-drop functionality:

a Open another application like a text editor.

b Enter some random text, select it en drag it unto the URL-bar area in Firefox.

This will cause Firefox to try and open the selected text as if it were a URL.

c After this, try step 1 again to see if drag-and-drop functionality has returned.