1361979 - copying text from firefox is broken in linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170502232935

Steps to reproduce:

I am using the 54 branch of firefox and the latest gtk+ 3-22 branch,
Copying text from firefox is broken.

The following procedures don't work:
1) Copying text from firefox to firefox.
2) Copying text from firefox and pasting in a native gtk+ application.

The following procedures work:
1) Copying text from a native gtk+ application and pasting in firefox.
2) Copying text from a native gtk+ application and pasting in another native gtk+ application.
3) Copying an image in firefox (whole image, not the link) and pasting it in another application such as gimp.

Please make sure you are using the latest code from gtk+ 3.22 branch before testing my bug.

Comment 1

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

This is the relevant gtk+ change. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781814
Perhaps firefox needs to adapt to it.
Note: Libreoffice, webkitgtk+, and native gtk+ applications are not affected.

Comment 2

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

gtk+ 3.22.13 was released with this change. It looks like firefox needs to support "text/plain;charset=utf-8" in addition to the currently used UTF8_STRING.

Comment 3

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

GTK+ developers fixed this in 3.22.14