162218 - Visit Kuro5hin URL, select Location Bar text, hit Ctrl-C, fails to copy

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Eric Liga]

Tested on:
Build 2002081018 under Win98B, 256MB RAM.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Cold-start Mozilla.
2.  Go to the following URL: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/9/145459/8124#164
3.  Select all text in the Location Bar (URL Bar?).
4.  Hit Ctrl-C
5.  Try to paste into Notepad or other application.

Expected Result:
Contents of URL Bar get pasted into notepad.

Actual Result:
Nothing happens-- contents of URL bar never made it onto the clipboard.

This is only one of a whole slew of bad things that happen when you start
playing with this page with the 1.1 Candidate Build.  Some of them result in
hard-locks of the entire system under Win9X.  I'll try to post links to the
other bugs once I've filed them in hopes that together they'll point to the problem.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

worksforme linux trunk cvs 2002-08-10. I've heard these ruours that recent
nightly builds might be corrupted or truncated or somesuch

Comment 2

[Eric Liga]

This was on an upgrade install, but per the suggestion in bug 162207, I did so.
 Behavior was identical even after an uninstall followed by reinstall.  I'll try
a more recent build to see if it was just a quirk with that specific one.

BTW, I've also filed bug 162207 and bug 162220 re: problems with the listed URL.
 Thought it might be worth mentioning them in case they're related.

Comment 3

[Eric Liga]

Okay, after another uninstall, deletion of all profile information, and install
of 1.1 branch build 2002081108, the problem went away.  So I guess this won't
harm anyone doing a totally fresh install of Moz 1.1.  I'll tag it and its
siblings as invalid.

Is there any way, other than backing up your bookmarks, mail, etc, uninstalling
and reinstalling with a later build to safely upgrade from one build to another?