Drag & drop an image from Firefox to Writer results in strange text

[devvv]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When I drag & drop an image from Firefox 3.0 (from Ubuntu) to OpenOffice Writer, strange texts like

<img alt="" src="https://launchpadlibrarian.net/8196569/mediumubuntulogo.png" height="64" width="64">

are displayed.

I have installed all updates but it doesn't help.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 11 01:07:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic x86_64

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Confirmed on OOo 3.0 with FF2. Also bdmurray confirmed this happening on Abiword.

I'm not sure if this is a bug in FF or with OpenOffice/Abiword, so I am marking this as FF also to get input from Alexander.

Thanks,

Chris

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:53:41PM -0000, Chris Cheney wrote:
> Confirmed on OOo 3.0 with FF2. Also bdmurray confirmed this happening on
> Abiword.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug in FF or with OpenOffice/Abiword, so I am
> marking this as FF also to get input from Alexander.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix

ff2 is confirmed, but wont we fixed as we are reaching EOL.

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status incomplete

does it happen on in ffox 3 (sorry, but cant reach launchpad bug atm -
offline)?

 - Alexander

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Alexander,

Sorry I wasn't clear about that part. It is confirmed on FF2/FF3 and OOo 2.4.1/OOo 3.0beta. Also bdmurray confirmed it with Abiword (and I think FF3) as well.

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This appears to be a firefox bug and not an OOo bug.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i need a better testcase i cannot reproduce with abiword ... dragging images there doesnt work at all. how do you select the image?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Jay Daniels (halo)]

With current version of oowriter, if you start a new document and go here and drag those rectangle images from firefox over to oowriter, it will crash.

http://www.mathsteacher.com.au/year7/ch12_length/06_rect/rect.htm

Apparently, Firefox and OpenOffice apps do not play well together.

OO 3.2
Firefox 3.6.8
Ubuntu 10.04

[penalvch (penalvch)]

In Ubuntu 10.10, went to http://www.mathsteacher.com.au/year7/ch12_length/06_rect/rect.htm selected the entire page via Ctrl+A, then dragged and dropped into blank libreoffice-writer file it printed the html code. Same webpage did Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C, the Ctrl+V into blank libreoffice-writer file, crashed the first time (auto-apport did not kick in, was not stracing, valgrinding, etc). The second and subsequent times, did not crash and pasted the webpage icons reasonably well.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-writer

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Candidate: 1:3.3.0-1maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.0-1maverick1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Candidate: 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

[Mark Foster (fostermarkd)]

What is the expected behaviour?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

For me in Libreoffice 3.3, Maverick:
Dragging just images gives no problem - cannot reproduce this bug
Dragging whole page gives html code
Copy and paste whole page cause no problem - cannot reproduce crash of #9

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

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