170220 - Mozilla keeps triggering KDE 2.1.2 Web-URL dialog box

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Whit Blauvelt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020921
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020921

Frequently while browsing between pages KDE's Web-URL dialog box, which normally
opens when a URL has been highlighted in text, comes up asking what to do about
a URL which will be one that was accessed some pages behind in Mozilla. So
somehow slightly old items in Mozilla's history list are being seen by KDE as if
they had been highlighted by the mouse - which of course is not happening at
all. This was not occuring in Moz 1.1 and prior, only now that I've installed
1.2b nightly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a dozen URL's. The nuisance becomes increasingly frequent.

Actual Results:  
The damn Web-URL dialog box keeps coming up asking what to do with the URL that
Mozilla is causing it to believe I've highlighted somewhere.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should keep its operations distinct from whatever X buffer stores
currently mouse-highlighted text.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

> Mozilla should keep its operations distinct from whatever X buffer stores
> currently mouse-highlighted text.

it seems unlikely that Mozilla is actually doing that.  When this happens, try
middle-click pasting.  This will test whether the relevant buffer is actually
being touched.

Comment 2

[Whit Blauvelt]

With more experimentation, it's more subtle than I first reported. It indeed
involves the X buffer (the URL can be pasted from there as you suggest), but the
prior URL is in the buffer because at a prior point I highlighted it in
Mozilla's location bar in order to delete it and type a fresh URL (Mozilla might
do well to copy Konqueror's button for clearing that space).

Why this is still a Mozilla bug is that the KDE Web-URL dialog box is coming up
frequently just at the time when I click on a link on a current Webpage or use
the Back button in Mozilla - each time displaying the URL that's in the X buffer
because of previously having been highlighted when I deleted it. So something in
Mozilla's behavior is causing X/KDE to believe that the URL in the buffer has
just been freshly highlighted (the only time that dialog box should come up). 

To recap: If there's a URL in the X buffer, then conducting normal navigation in
Mozilla somehow triggers KDE's dialog based on the premise that the URL is
freshly highlighted. I've been using the same pattern of behavior in prior
Mozilla versions, and this behavior is new in 1.2b.

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

I've experienced this myself. Routine web browsing apparently pokes at the X
clipboard somehow, triggering the KDE clipboard utility on virtually every page.

The KDE clipboard utility can be configured with a set of window IDs to ignore.
It comes preconfigured with an entry for mozilla, but depending on your version
of kde the entry may be out of date. The workaround is to update the clipboard
utility with the window ID that mozilla is currently using, so that the
clipboard utility will recognize and ignore mozilla events.

I'm going to assign this to XP Toolkits/widgets in case they want to address the
clipboard activity which is triggering the utility.

Comment 4

[GavinS]

I found the following explanation on the UCLA-LUG mailing list in case anyone is
having trouble finding out how to disable this feature (like I was)...

> The offending application is "Klipper"... a clipboard history utility.  You 
> can turn off this behavior by right clicking on its icon on the panel (it 
> looks like a little clipboard)... and unchecking the box "Actions Enabled".  
> There is also a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable this... the default is 
> Alt+Ctrl+X, but you can of course change it.  Also, if you find yourself 
> wanting this action for some applications and not others, you can disable it 
> on a per-application basis from the Action tab of the "Preferences" dialog.

Comment 5

[Angel Blue]

This bug should be closed as it is several years old and neither KDE 2.x or the Mozilla suite are supported anymore. I have not experienced this with the latest KDE, 4.2.1,