1635480 - Should disable "Paste as Quote" in Firefox?

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement)

Description

[Sergey Vlasov]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

Environment: X11

1. Select some text.
2. Go to any text input element.
3. Hold CTRL and press middle mouse button to paste the selection.

Actual results:

Pasted text is:

> some text

(angle bracket, a space character, the actual selected text, tree new line characters).

Expected results:

Pasted text is some text, i.e. just like with a regular middle mouse click. This is the behavior of every X11 application.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Hi Mirko, could you confirm this?

Comment 3

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia)]

It's reproducible on Ubuntu 18.04 (already with Firefox 75). For instance, with data:text/html,<textarea>. I wonder if this is considered a feature.

Comment 4

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia)]

It's apparently a feature. However, likely intended only for Thunderbird, not Firefox.

Comment 5

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

Yeah, this is a feature, but I use this when I do reply in some forums a lot.

Sergey Vlasov: Did you get some inconvenience with this behavior, e.g., some web apps don't work with it?

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 7

[Sergey Vlasov]

Masayuki Nakano: I paste the text with keyboard using a binding that emulates middle click (CTRL + spacebar). Since it is impossible to release both keys at the same time, CTRL usually is still being pressed, so Firefox registers CTRL + middle click.

Comment 8

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

(In reply to Sergey Vlasov from comment #7)

Masayuki Nakano: I paste the text with keyboard using a binding that emulates middle click (CTRL + spacebar). Since it is impossible to release both keys at the same time, CTRL usually is still being pressed, so Firefox registers CTRL + middle click.

It's interesting case what I've never expected. Did you customize it with changing some files with text editor? Or is it customized by a tweak tool? I mean I'd like to know it's major customization or not.

Comment 9

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

Sergey Vlasov:

Without explanation how to customize it, I cannot go advance myself. Could you tell me it?

Comment 10

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