1616104 - Line numbers appear in the selected text when more than one line is selected in Chrome

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Webtools :: Searchfox, defect)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

STR:

1. Open Searchfox in Chrome on Linux.
2. Select more than one line.
3. Use the mousewheel to click inside text input, or use the xsel command to reveal the content of the PRIMARY clipboard.

Expected:

• No line numbers in selected text

Actual:

• Line numbers in selected text, due to https://crbug.com/850685

Note that line numbers don't appear when Ctrl-C is used to copy the text. This is because Chrome special-cases that. The bug occurs when the PRIMARY clipboard is populated (and not completely incidentally, also when the built-in A11y tool is used - https://crbug.com/830106 ).

Comment 1

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Interestingly, Safari on OS X seems to have this problem all the time, too. (That is, I copied and pasted some lines in Safari on OS X from a searchfox page into a Firefox Nightly textarea, and there were line numbers pasted in the textarea.)

Comment 2

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch/pull/276

Should get deployed today. I'm going to go ahead and close this bug, but please reopen if the fix doesn't work after it gets deployed later today.

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Searchfox now works as expected in Chromium, using the STR from the report. Thanks!