166197 - Copy and paste (Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v or mark plus mouse paste) don't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Pedro Madeira]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020901

While composing a new mail I could't paste a text from a website into a new email
composition. I tried to create a text file with the text and then copying it from
there to the composition window but still no luck. After a few tries the Ctrl + c
and Ctrl + v feature could only copy a single line at a time.

Other version before this one seemed OK.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

related: bug 166056

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

do form controls work? e.g. a textarea on a webpage

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002090118

I just ran into the same problem. I mark some text in a browser window and want
to past it into MailNews by the middle mouse button. Nothing. Same with ctrl-c
and v. Yet another recent regression. I get the feeling that in the last two
weeks more problems were created than solved:-(

pi

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

This sure sounds like a duplicate of bug 166056 (read comment 21).  The
timeframe matches.  Can someone test with a newer build and see if the problem
still exists?

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Very strange. It WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b)
Gecko/2002090311, which was before the fix of bug 166056 (AFAICS).

pi

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

reassigning to Varada.  Can you drive this?  jfrancis, is this related to 166056
as suggest in comment #5?

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

varada, this is blocking 1.2alpha. Can you give us some kind of status?

Comment 8

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I have to back out comment 5. It happens once in a while, not consistently:-(

Sorry, I cannot test a newer version. I want my RPMs;-)

pi

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

asa asked me to help, as this is blocking the release of 1.2alpha

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this works for me on my trunk on rh 7.3

trying a nightly build (09082002) now...

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

works for me in the 09082002 build from ftp.mozilla.org (installed as typical)
on RH 7.3

marking WFM.

Comment 12

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/2002091318

Really seems to work in the latest nightlies.

pi