114968 - paste of larger text impossible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56219

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[János Holányi]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011212
BuildID:    2001121208

If I copy a larger text area (several plain text pages in e.g. gnome-terminal)
and want to paste it into a form with Mozilla, the text is not pasted. Instead,
the previous shorter text from Mozilla's paste buffer is pasted into the form).
When copying only a few lines from within the same gnome-terminal from the same
window screen page (without letting the mouse auto-scroll the terminal screen
page), pasting into the form in Mozilla works as a charm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open gnome-terminal and a html form with a <textarea> in Mozilla
2.in gnome-terminal, perform 'cat /path/to/a/large/plain/text/file'
3.Using Shift+PgUp, jump a few pages backwards.
4.start highlighting (=copying) with the mouse not stopping at the last line of
the terminal screen, but moving the mouse off-terminal screen and letting
gnome-terminal scroll down a few lines)
5.release mouse button
6.try to paste the buffer content into the form in Mozilla (either 3rd mouse
button or Ctrl-V), where it will fail


Actual Results:  The previous buffer content was pasted (e.g. a previously
copied email address or Link Address)

Expected Results:  Paste the large text.

I am running Debian/GNU Linux woody

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56219 ***