170418 - Copying URL or other plain text should not include style info

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Andy Lyttle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020922
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020922

When copying text from the address bar, a form field, or via right-click and
"Copy Link Location", Mozilla invents style information (font, size, color) to
go along with it.  So, when you paste into an application that accepts styled
text (such as AIM), it messes up whatever formatting you wanted to use.  Mozilla
should copy style information when copying from text on a web page, but not when
copying from a plain-text source such as the address bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the URL from the address bar, or right-click a link and choose "Copy
Link Location"
2. Switch to a word processor, set the font to something usual, change the size
to 36 point, change the color to purple, select Bold, and type a few words
3. Paste

Actual Results:  
The URL you copied is pasted in the default system font (13 point Lucida Grande
for me), not bold and not purple

Expected Results:  
The URL should have been copied as plain text with no formatting, so when you
paste it, it should use whatever style you're already using (obnoxious and
purple), just as if you had typed the URL manually.

Comment 1

[timeless]

not bugzilla

Comment 2

[Andy Lyttle]

damn, how the hell did I do that?  clicked the wrong one, sorry. :-)

Comment 3

[Frankie]

*** Bug 178448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[riscky]

*** Bug 242826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'll be this bug is fixed on the trunk. Reporter, can you please test this on the trunk and see if it's fixed? If so, it was fixed by Cocoa widgets.