[Solved] Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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[Solved] Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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greetings. I save a lot of images by simply dragging and dropping them into Total Commander. this works well with Chromium-based browsers but with Firefox a confirmation dialogue appears for each picture. could there be a setting in Total Commander to disable that confirmation step and save the image instantly like with Chromium browsers?
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Re: Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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Strange, can you give me an example of a web page where you get a confirmation dialog?
For example, I can drag icons from this forum to Total Commander and either get an url file for images with links, or directly the image file for images without links.
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Re: Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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this happens with any image for me, but to make sure I tried again just now with this ping pong image on Wikipedia

- dragging from Firefox to Total Commander - confirmation dialog ("Copy 1 file(s) to [path]\", Yes/No)
- dragging the same image from Edge to Total Commander - no confirmation dialog, it downloads immediately

I thought before it had to do only with Firefox but dragging from Firefox to Explorer works with no confirmation

edit: I have Windows 11
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Re: Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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It looks like this image is copied from the TEMP folder, which triggers the overwrite dialog when the following option is checked:
Menu Configuration - Options - Misc - Drag&Drop (copying files with mouse)

You can uncheck this to not get a confirmation, but it will also affect dragging files within Total Commander.
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Re: Confirmation Window on Image Drag'n'Drop from Firefox

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thank you, that solved it!
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