1249321 - Drag Dropping from Chrome into Firefox creates garbled text and chinese characters.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 586587

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[FanFan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160210153822

Steps to reproduce:

From any chrome page I.E. Wikipedia English is a good candidate select a section of text. Drag and drop that into a content editable in Firefox.

Notice the result is a bunch of garbled Chinese characters.

Note if you look at the drag drop event the getData('text/html') also returns these Chinese characters where getData('text/plain') seems to give you correct text without all the formatting.

This bug is related to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900414

It is present in Firefox 44.0.2


Actual results:

Garbled Chinese characters.


Expected results:

Dropped html text from chrome.

Comment 1

[FanFan]

Also related to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050566

Comment 2

[marcino245]

Are you able to reproduce the issue with a clean profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 3

[FanFan]

Yes

Comment 4

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

It seems this was fixed by bug 586587 which landed after 44 branched.

Can you please try to reproduce in Nightly and then again in Beta?

Comment 5

[FanFan]

Firefox 46a2 (Firefox Developer Edition) has this bug fixed.

Do you know where I can obtain a copy of Firefox 45 Beta so I can retest this on the next outgoing version?

Comment 6

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Thanks for verifying in devedition!

You can download beta builds here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#beta

At this point I'm just going to mark this as a dupe of the bug where this was fixed.