Dragging an image from Webpage within Firefox no longer provides it as DataFlavour java.net.URL/java.util.List on OSX with Java 7

[Paul Taylor]

On 13/01/2014 12:55, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 12:07, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> So on Windows with Java 7  I receive an image dragged frrm a webpage in these flavours (plus others) but these are two I'm interested in
>>
>> 25/11/2013 10.31.07:com.jthink.jaikoz.draganddrop.FileDropTarget:drop:SEVERE: java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor[mimetype=application/x-java-url;representationclass=java.net.URL]
>> 25/11/2013 10.31.07:com.jthink.jaikoz.draganddrop.FileDropTarget:drop:SEVERE: java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor[mimetype=application/x-java-file-list;representationclass=java.util.List]
>>
>> On OSX with Java 6 I received at least one of the two above, but now with Java 7 (1.7.0_40) I no longer receive either
>>
>> I found these bugs that seem related
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7124379
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8005932
> Hey Paul,
>
> I was just wondering - did you get a resolution for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -hendrik
Hi, yes it is fixed in early access version of Java 8

http://download.java.net/jdk8/changes/jdk8-b119.html?q=download/jdk8/changes/jdk8-b119.html


Paul