47477 - Copy-paste in X causes pasted text to be interpreted as a URL

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[maw19]

If you select some text in X windows, then middle-click
the browser window in a non-link area, the browser attempts to interpret the
pasted text as a URL and attempts to navigate to said URL.  So if I select the
text "Some fields initialized from your user-agent" and middle click on the
browser window in some blank space, the browser tries to navigate to
"http://some%20fields%20initialized%20from%20your%20user-agent/"

Comment 1

[Dave]

You weren't clicking in a text box, were you? If so it's a bug, if not, it's a
usefull feature. I like being able to paste URLs directly on the browser window
without having the clear the location bar (which would, in turn, clear the
"clipboard").
As for attempting to interpret non urls as urls, the location bar does the same
thing. It's the user's responsability to input a valid URL.

Reccomending "invalid" status.

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This is correct behaviour. If you pasted on a text field, that would just paste 
the text and not try to load anything.

Marking invalid.

Comment 3

[Jan Carpenter]

verified