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Bug 1224594
Opened 9 years ago
Updated 4 years ago
clipboard.autocopy (OSX) should ignore text entry boxes
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)
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(Reporter: hchapman-mozilla-bugs, Unassigned)
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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).
Reporter | ||
Updated•9 years ago
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OS: Unspecified → Mac OS X
Comment 1•9 years ago
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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.
Component: Untriaged → Selection
Flags: needinfo?(hchapman-mozilla-bugs)
Product: Firefox → Core
Reporter | ||
Comment 2•9 years ago
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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.
Flags: needinfo?(hchapman-mozilla-bugs)
Comment 3•9 years ago
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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.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Reporter | ||
Comment 4•9 years ago
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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•4 years ago
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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.
Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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