166136 - Cannot paste a large amount of text into textbox on web page, example, ebay item description box.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56219

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[madsci]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I cannot paste a large amount of text into a text box. For example, I cannot
paste a long description into the description box when selling an item on ebay.
I don't know if it matters, but the description I am trying to paste contains a
lot of HTML. The text I am trying to paste averages about 8000 bytes.

When I try to paste the text, the browser pauses for a second, and then nothing
happens (nothing at all is pasted). Small amount of text pastes fine here.
Netscape 4.x also pastes fine here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place a large amount of text in the clipboard from another app (text editor).
2. Try to paste into description box when selling item on ebay.
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser briefly pauses, then nothing happens, nothing is pasted.

Expected Results:  
Should have pasted the text!

I don't know how much text must be in the clipboard before paste fails, but
small amount of text works fine.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

->form submission

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of "[Linux] Can't paste over 4000 bytes from another app into mozilla"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56219 ***

Comment 3

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying