1215964 - X clipboard is overwritten by url autocompletion

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180080

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Cri]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.2.1
Build ID: 20150828090403

Steps to reproduce:

On a Linux system:
- Copy some text into the X clipboard
- Switch to Firefox, start typing into the location bar




Actual results:

Firefox will autocomplete the URL, and will copy the remaining part of the URL into the X clipboard, overwriting the original content of the clipboard


Expected results:

Text automatically selected (highlighted) by the autocomplete feature should NEVER be copied into the X clipboard.
Only text which is manually selected by the user should be copied into the clipboard.

This wouldn't happen in previous Firefox versions, so it should be a regression (I can't be more precise, sorry)

Comment 1

[Cri]

This report might be useful too:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/209380/x-copy-paste-buffer-overwritten-by-firefox-autocomplete-autosuggestion

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Probably duplication of Bug 1180080

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Bug 1180080 was fixed for Firefox 43+. Can you see if this works as expected on a recent Nightly or Developer Edition build?

Comment 4

[Cri]

Yes I can confirm the bug is fixed in today's Nightly.

Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Thanks for checking! Calling this a dupe of bug 1180080. As mentioned before, the fix for this should be riding the Firefox 43 release train (going to beta in a little over a week).