# \[X\] Drag&Drop from Firefox 3.5 bug
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [July 5, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559 "2009-07-05T11:25:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Danez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Danez)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/1 "2009-07-05T11:25:46Z")
With Firefox 3.0 when i directly dragged a file from the Browser to mp3tag, the file was embedded as image/jpeg.
with Firefox 3.5 the file gets embedded as image/bmp, and that's causing problems with Winamp for Example.
Is this possible to fix?
version: 2.43a
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/2 "2009-07-05T11:56:17Z")
I can confirm this behaviour. Would be nice to get back the JPGs or another solution to extract the pictures as JPG.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/3 "2009-07-06T18:22:03Z")
Seems like this has been changed with Firefox 3.5 where the image is a temporary BMP file referenced in the HDROP drag'n'drop structure.
It's more an issue with Firefox than with Mp3tag and I'm not sure whether I should try to workaround this.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/4 "2009-07-06T19:41:10Z")
Could you convert it to a \*.jpg during the extract-process? 
I found this info in another forum:
> [@](#):
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> FF 3.5 now supports the filelist and this filelist points definitely to a bmp file located in the %Temp% path!
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> Some Tests:
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> Drop a PNG image from IE 8 into [paint.net](http://paint.net) -\> PNG file is opened in [paint.net](http://paint.net).
> Drop a PNG image from FF 3.5 into paint.net-\> BMP file is opened in [paint.net](http://paint.net).
> Try to drop a PNG image from FF 3.0 into [paint.net](http://paint.net) -\> not possible.
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### Author:  [@Danez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Danez)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/5 "2009-07-06T19:52:13Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> Could you convert it to a \*.jpg during the extract-process? 
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> I found this info in another forum:
I also reported this in the firefox bugtrack, but the marked it as duplicate of a bug created in 2000, so i don't think they care or it's already fixed in trunk.
The funny thing is that dropping a image to the desktop/explorer is creating a \*.jpg.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/6 "2009-07-06T19:58:45Z")
> [@Danez](#):
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> The funny thing is that dropping a image to the desktop/explorer is creating a \*.jpg.
YES! Thats exactly what I found 2 minutes before.  If you drag & drop a jpg-picture from [bild.de](http://bild.de) to your explorer, you get a JPG. But if you drag & drop the same jpg-picture to Mp3tag, it makes a image/bmp. Strange... 
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/7 "2009-07-12T17:25:37Z")
I think that this should be fixed on Firefox side. Can you please post the link to the bug for future reference?
Thanks!
Florian
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### Author:  [@Danez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Danez)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/8 "2009-07-12T17:31:14Z")
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=502453](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502453)
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/9 "2009-07-13T14:29:00Z")
Unfortunately, they don't really care about this bug at Mozilla, right?
Is there anything we can do about this (annoying!) behaviour?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/10 "2009-07-19T06:32:51Z")
Just FYI, I've commented on the bug report.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/11 "2009-07-19T07:30:21Z")
Thank you for the additional informations.
I just ask you:
How difficult would it be to implement a conversion from \*.bmp to \*.jpg inside Mp3tag? I have no idea if there are existing libraries for such a task.
And another thing:
With the file-explorer from windows the drag&drop from FF works. How can they make it work in file-explorer?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2009, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/12 "2009-07-19T11:00:03Z")
I don't know how drag'n'drop to Windows Explorer works internally in FF 3.5 but I've added a workaround for this issue with the current [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-drag-drop-from-firefox-3-5-bug/8559/13 "2018-12-28T14:26:13Z")
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