1086933 - "Paste" Button doesn't appear after tapping on url bar and then long tapping

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Text Selection, defect)

Description

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #951274 +++

Steps to Reproduce:

1. copy text from twitter.com or other web page 
2. tap on url bar  
3. long press on url bar  

Expected Behaviour:

"Paste" button appears

Actual Result:

The "Paste" button doesn't appear

A video showing this bug on Android 4.4.2 Samsung Galaxy S5 is here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/15408413657/

Comment 1

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

users have reported this problem on nexus 7 2013 and other samsung devices, please see the following spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheets/d/1EcXDUSOHaTTqU167UjYV_zquA0Z4AORUjVnNDoKvwqw/edit#gid=1078951383

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Note, you can still paste with the icon on the far right, the clipboard icon.

Comment 3

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #2)
> Note, you can still paste with the icon on the far right, the clipboard icon.

Y ou are right, you can paste with the clipboard icon, thanks Aaron!

My question: is why does Android have the paste button then? Seems silly to have far right clipboard Paste icon

AND

the "Paste" button !

Comment 4

[Robert (rrayborn, he/him)]

Attachment: Firefox Paste Options

Comment 5

[Robert (rrayborn, he/him)]

Attachment: Chrome 3rd Paste Option

Comment 6

[Robert (rrayborn, he/him)]

I think that the issue may be that users are confused because they're are two types of paste menus: top-bar and contextual (my names).  It's also not always predictable which one will be used.  For example, when I replicate roland's twitter -> URL steps, I get the regular contextual paste, not the top bar.  However, when I try to paste in a reply to a tweet in Twitter it uses the top-bar (probably because it selects text where it shouldn't). See attached.

For the record, Chrome has similar behaviour, but seems to even have a third paste styling (a small paste hover above the cursor) in some circumstances (attached).

So in summary, feel free to mark this as "will not fix" if you feel that the different paste behaviours are correct, however it does seem to be confusing some users.

Thanks

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The "Paste" popup is finicky in the URLBar. Because you had a selection already, we show the ActionBar. If you would have cleared the URLBar selection and then long-pressed, you would have seen the "Paste" popup.

Rob's picture of Firefox paste options is show two different situations too. The "Paste" popup only ever shows up for Native Android Textboxes, iirc. The <textarea> is in web content, and uses the ActionBar.

I will take the WONTFIX option here.

Comment 8

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

I accept the WONTFIX :-) do i have a choice :-) ?
anyhow thanks for everybody's feedback that helps a lot!
I will add Joni Savage to this bug and see if we can *ameliorate* this bug by documenting it in the SUMO knowledgebase :-)

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #7)
> The "Paste" popup is finicky in the URLBar. Because you had a selection
> already, we show the ActionBar. If you would have cleared the URLBar
> selection and then long-pressed, you would have seen the "Paste" popup.
> 
> Rob's picture of Firefox paste options is show two different situations too.
> The "Paste" popup only ever shows up for Native Android Textboxes, iirc. The
> <textarea> is in web content, and uses the ActionBar.
> 
> I will take the WONTFIX option here.