961387 - Clipboard data disappeared after Firefox has crashed

Status: NEW

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[mozilla.org]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

0. Start Firefox fresh.
1. Copy some text from a webpage.
2. Force terminate / Kill the Firefox process.




Actual results:

Trying to paste the copied text will fail. Nothing will be pasted.



Expected results:

Clipboard data should retain even Firefox is crashed.

Comment 1

[Ioana (away)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0

Copied text from Firefox, closed Firefox with menu > Quit -> text could be pasted.
Copied text from Firefox, pasted the text, killed the Firefox process -> test could still be pasted.
Copied text from Firefox, killed the Firefox process -> The clipboard was empty. You couldn't paste the text copied now, nor the one copied before.

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Interesting, this may actually seem like a sessionstore feature as we would somehow need to persist this information and restore it on after crash.