Closed Bug 1165664 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Typing a URL sometimes steals the PRIMARY selection

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
38 Branch
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180080

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150513174244

Steps to reproduce:

1. Type Ctrl-T to open a new tab (blank URL).

2. Type "allo" to search for some URL. At this point, I get:
  allocine.fr/
where "cine.fr/" is in reverse video (as if it were selected by the user).

3. Click with the middle button in some application that accepts the PRIMARY selection (e.g. xterm).


Actual results:

I sometimes get: cine.fr/ instead of the old PRIMARY selection.

Also, if something was selected in an xterm (corresponding to the PRIMARY selection), when I type the URL, this is sometimes deselected from the xterm, showing that the PRIMARY selection was stolen by Firefox.


Expected results:

Typing a URL is not a selection process. Thus the PRIMARY selection should not be stolen.
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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