1487394 - urlbar selection becomes X11 selection when opening a new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1457355

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[int-e]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180808222917

Steps to reproduce:

This applies to X11/Linux. Note that this refers to the X11 selection mechanism, not the clipboard mechanism. Steps to reproduce:

1. visit any website, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
2. double-click the URL bar (selecting the URL)
3. go to a different window (e.g. an xterm) and select a URL (say https://google.com/)
4. in Firefox, open a new tab (or switch to a different tab)
5. middle click into URL bar to paste

This sequence occurs frequently in my use of Firefox, but there is no causal relationship between steps 1-2 and steps 3-4: I copy URLs to other applications (step 2), and independently copy URLs from other applications into a new tab (steps 3-4).


Actual results:

The pasted URL is the one from the previously active tab (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/  in the example)


Expected results:

The pasted URL should be the most recently selected one (https://google.com/ in the example)

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

I can reproduce the issue on Linux Mint 18.3 MAT Eedition.
And this is regressed since Firefox60.

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=4bd1219880f9c3bcbc6136160003d6fbb51655cd&tochange=562966f195b0f071cf1d973f7b4fd51ec8594343

Regressed by:
562966f195b0	Dão Gottwald — Bug 1442651 - Remove the tabbrowser element and binding. r=bgrins

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Tracked in the duplicate.