Cannot drag and drop web link from Firefox address bar to folder

Bug #238544 reported by rsinghone
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I am trying to perform the simple function of dragging a web link from the Firefox address bar, to a folder on my either Fat32, NTFS or Samba file/folder system or network share (using Nautilus 2.22.2 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron). I would expect this action should merely create a shortcut link to that web site address. No error is returned. Nothing happens.

It does seem to work when performing this action to a Linux ext3 file-system such as to my home directory. I experimented then taking this shortcut link from my home directory (ext3 filesystem), drag 'n' drop it to either Fat32, NTFS or Samba shares and it comes with the error:
--> Error while copying "Advanced Theme Construction Kit (ATCK) | drupal.org.desktop".
-->There was an error copying the file into /media/mydata/Software/Drupal/Themes/CreateTheme.
--> Invalid Filename

The problem faced is we need to share web links across a research team who would store the shortcuts in a network folder location or temporarily keep the shortcuts on their Fat32 partition on their Laptops when out of office. Ideally the short-cut links created would be compatible with IE for researchers.

As a team of social researchers, we would like to encourage use of Linux compatible open source tools such as Firefox over and above IE. However given most researchers use IE at present we cannot encourage the change over enough unless there is some cross compatibility with IE and Firefox for common elements such as Short-cuts and bookmarks across a compatible/shareable file/folder system.

Many thanks,
Raj

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 9 13:00:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-server i686

Tags: apport-bug
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rsinghone (raj-singh) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

this works in 3.0 we ship in hardy, intrepid and jaunty. just push ctrl+shift before dropping the url; this should create a link file…

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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