1110806 - Selecting text with mouse in DevTools -> Network -> Params -> Request payload does not copy the text (Linux)

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect, P3)

Description

[casey.bessette]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 Iceweasel/34.0
Build ID: 20141203180037

Steps to reproduce:

1. View an AJAX request in the Network panel.
2. View the Params.
3. Make sure Request payload has some data (e.g., a JSON payload).
4. Select some of the text in the Request payload area to copy it (Linux).


Actual results:

After middle-clicking elsewhere to paste what was selected (this is standard X Windows behavior, e.g., in an xterm or elsewhere in Firefox), the previously mouse-selected text does not paste.


Expected results:

Selecting text with the mouse should copy it to the clipboard so it can be pasted later.

Comment 1

[lilydjwg]

I can confirm this, together with some other code showing places in devtools. Also, middle mouse pasting doesn't seem to work either.

Firefox 35 on Arch Linux.

Comment 2

[a.eischeid]

I can confirm that selecting then middle click elsewhere, like a text editor, to paste does not work. Right click also does nothing. Other places it would open dialog including option to copy. However, ctrl+c works to get stuff into clipboard.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0

Comment 3

[David Balažic]

This does not work on Windows either.
If I left click a parameter value, then right click (just right click does nothing), and in the menu select Copy, nothing is copied.

FF 65.0.1 64 bit

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I can't select (and by extension cannot copy) text in any of the panels in the Network pane in dev tools on my Mac. I can highlight text, but the instant I release the mouse button, the selection is cleared.

This is a great big bummer when trying to share information with another dev for debugging purposes. :(