1224594 - clipboard.autocopy (OSX) should ignore text entry boxes

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Harvey Chapman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

Set clipboard.autocopy to true in about:config
Hit Cmd-L to jump to the Location Bar
Firefox auto-highlighted the current location and then copied that location to the clipboard



Actual results:

Firefox auto-copies from text entry boxes: location, search, and form boxes. This makes it really difficult to search for a string copied from another app.

For example:
- copy "search terms" from some other app
- Cmd-Tab to switch to Firefox
- Click in the search box (any previous search terms are highlighted automatically and replace "search terms" in the clipboard.
- Now, clear out the search box
- Go back to your other app
- Re-copy "search terms" to the clipboard
- Cmd-Tab back to firefox
- Click on the search box and paste


Expected results:

Firefox should not apply autocopy to text entry boxes/fields. When those are highlighted, quite often users' wish is to paste over the existing contents (e.g. with a new credit card number or address in a form).

Comment 1

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi Harvey,

I tested this on MAC OS X 10_11, with Nightly 45.0a1 (2015-11-15), and I can't reproduce the problem. Please provide some exact steps to reproduce and also actual results. 
Please try to download Nightly from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/ and see if you can reproduce the problem.

Comment 2

[Harvey Chapman]

I just tested with "45.0a1 (2015-11-16)", and you're right. It can't be reproduced. Of course, that's because autocopy doesn't work at all in today's Nightly. :)

I ran Nightly with an empty profile and my regular profile (ensuring autocopy was set in both). I even restarted nightly after changing the setting to be make sure.

Steps:
- start nightly with an empty profile
- set clipboard.autocopy to true
- highlight some text on the default Yahoo page
- click in the Yahoo search box on the same page and Cmd-V to paste.
It won't be the highlighted text.

Comment 3

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Hi Harvey, 

I did again a test on FF 42 and you are right, I can reproduce the problem.

Steps:
start nightly with an empty profile
 1.set clipboard.autocopy to true
 2.highlight some text on the default Yahoo page
 3.click in the Yahoo search box on the same page and Cmd-V to paste.

Expected results: 
The highlight text should be in Yahoo search box.

Actual results:
The highlight text is not pasted in the Yahoo search box.

Comment 4

[Harvey Chapman]

Thanks for checking. Firefox is by leaps and bounds my favorite browser.

To be clear: it _was_ working as I originally described it when I first reported it. But now running 42.0, it's no longer working. I'm at a loss to say why.

Comment 5

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.