https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60415
--- Comment #7 from Mark Bourne <[email protected]> --- I've just seen this mentioned on the mailing list: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg36731.html This mentions LibreOffice Writer versions from 3.x to 4.2 on Ubuntu (10.04 to 13.1). I can confirm this in LibreOffice Writer 4.0.4.2, copying from Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.23, on Windows Vista. Copying static images from a couple of other websites was no problem, so it seems to be partly to do with the way Google images search works. Calc, Draw and Impress do not appear to be affected. To reproduce (until Google change their image search, at least): 1. Navigate browser to https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=random 2. Right click on one of the result images and select "Copy Image" 3. From LibreOffice Writer, Edit > Paste 4. LibreOffice Writer shows an outline for the image, then hangs Copying from other websites into Writer, it looks like Writer gets a link to the image, then downloads it itself. However, the URL included when copying an image from a Google image search isn't a link to an image on a web server (it begins "data:" rather than "http:") - I guess the image data is obtained via JavaScript or JSON or something in the web browser, but that link won't then work for another application. Not good that it hangs LibreOffice Writer though! I'm not sure about Linux, but on Windows a "copy" operation can put data on the clipboard in several formats, and the "paste" operation can then use any one of those (usually a default, with "paste special" giving the user a choice). Copying an image from the web browser appears to place data on the clipboard in HTML and bitmap formats, where the HTML includes a link to the image as well as alt text etc. It looks like Writer uses the HTML by default and attempts to download the image data itself, while Draw and Impress use the image data from the clipboard. Presumably Writer does something useful with the other HTML attributes which Draw and Impress don't, but looks like it needs to handle "data:" links (and perhaps other cases) more gracefully. Writer does not hang if using Paste Special > Bitmap, to use the bitmap data from the clipboard rather than the HTML - but that doesn't exactly help anyone who uses the default "Paste" and finds Writer hangs. Mark. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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