253496 - Opening new tab erases clipboard

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dustin Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

Copying any text and then creating a new tab erases the copied text from the
clipboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copy Text
2.Create a new tab
3.Try to paste text

Actual Results:  
The text is now lost from the clipboard.

Expected Results:  
Retain the text and paste it correctly.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

WFM on latest branch build.  There's no reason for this to happen, at all, and
I've never seen this.

Comment 2

[Dustin Jones]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM on latest branch build.  There's no reason for this to happen, at all, and
> I've never seen this.

I'm sorry but I dont know what WFM means.  Is this on my end?

Comment 3

[Peter 'vt100' Schwindt]

To Dustin:
WFM means "works for me". So the reporter in comment #1 cannot confirm your bug.

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WFM also on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Are you sure you pressed Ctrl+C to copy the text into the clipboard?

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

WFM on Win XP Firefox branch build 2004-08-18-08-0.9

Resolving as WFM