Drag and drop Firefox issue

I've encountered a rather annoying problem with drag and drop. Firefox will always accept a drop of a custom component! For example run and drag and drop in firefox:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/dnd/ex6/DragPictureDemo.jnlp
Do you know anyway to prevent this (I know IE does not accept the drop...)?
Thanks very much for any input!

I have an applet in a webpage that will accept drag
and drops, however, if a user mistakingly drops into
the browser page and not the applet, the drop is
consumed, which is bad especially if you want an
action to occur whenever a drop happens...
:(Okay, but the applet provides a target area. So how is it any different from dropping said content on any other app that's in a background window? Make sure the drop area is visually obvious.
Of course, if Firefox is taking this to be a file to show and then unloading the applet, that is not ideal. But I personally would not worry about such a thing happening that I felt a need to jump thru hoops to find a solution.
In my opinion this would be a Firefox bug, but was
wondering if there is a Java workaround. I guess I
could tell people to just use IE.....You could restrict to IE other ways too, but I really don't see the point. I don't know any other way to change the type except what you already posted. FireFox does support running Java from within Javascript, so this might be a side effect of that.
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I have an applet in a webpage that will accept drag
and drops, however, if a user mistakingly drops into
the browser page and not the applet, the drop is
consumed, which is bad especially if you want an
action to occur whenever a drop happens...
:(Okay, but the applet provides a target area. So how is it any different from dropping said content on any other app that's in a background window? Make sure the drop area is visually obvious.
Of course, if Firefox is taking this to be a file to show and then unloading the applet, that is not ideal. But I personally would not worry about such a thing happening that I felt a need to jump thru hoops to find a solution.
In my opinion this would be a Firefox bug, but was
wondering if there is a Java workaround. I guess I
could tell people to just use IE.....You could restrict to IE other ways too, but I really don't see the point. I don't know any other way to change the type except what you already posted. FireFox does support running Java from within Javascript, so this might be a side effect of that.
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Thank you for using
Microsoft Office for IT Professionals Forums.
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CTRL key, and then click Outlook program
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