Why does Firefox allow images to be dragged but not dropped?

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Published on 2009-04-01T09:30:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 7:02 UTC
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If you browse a web page through Firefox, any image on the page can be dragged anywhere on the screen—but you can't drop it. Other browsers such as IE or Chrome do not allow dragging images.

Is this a issue? Why does Firefox allow dragging?

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