The New Tab search bar is buggy (loses pasted text) and should be removed
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Open a new tab.
- Paste some text (e.g. "ab cd ef gh") in the search bar (saying "Search the web") with the middle button.
Actual results:
Text appears in the address bar and the first word is lost, e.g. I get "cd ef gh" without "ab".
There is no such issue when pasting directly in the address bar.
Expected results:
The full text should be pasted.
Note: I believe that the appearance in the address bar is a new feature (bug 1699834), but this is contrary to the principle of least surprise. The now useless search bar should be removed, which would fix this issue as a consequence.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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I couldn't reproduce the described behavior using Windows 10, the entire text is correctly pasted with mouse middle button.
On Ubuntu 18.04, even though the pref middlemouse.paste is enabled, this functionality was somehow disabled for me, on both latest Nightly and 92RC. Do you have other preferences enabled?
Can you still reproduce on a clean, empty profile? Thank you!
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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Yes, this is reproducible with a newly created profile, thus with the default preferences.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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And still with the fresh profile, this is also reproducible if I use the menu (right click over the search bar), then click on the "Paste" item. So, this is not specific to middle click, but there may be a more general issue with mouse clicks.
BTW, the "Paste" item is sometimes incorrectly greyed out. In this case, I need to close the menu (with a left click somewhere else) and reopen it with a right click.
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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(In reply to Vincent Lefevre from comment #4)
And still with the fresh profile, this is also reproducible if I use the menu (right click over the search bar), then click on the "Paste" item. So, this is not specific to middle click, but there may be a more general issue with mouse clicks.
We tried on a different Ubuntu 20.04 machine and the issue is not present there, the full text is pasted each time using both middle click and Paste option.
BTW, the "Paste" item is sometimes incorrectly greyed out. In this case, I need to close the menu (with a left click somewhere else) and reopen it with a right click.
I also encountered intermittently the disabled Paste option in the context menu. It does not happen on Win 10, so it's probably Linux specific.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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Note that I tried with Debian's firefox package, but AFAIK, there aren't significant differences, except the libraries. I could try an upstream version later. If this is still reproducible, there may be a race condition, with a result that depends on the hardware.
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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The severity field is not set for this bug.
:adw, could you have a look please?
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Comment 8•4 years ago
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I can't reproduce the issue with the official Firefox 93 binary (neither with Nightly). So it could be a Debian specific bug.
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Comment 9•4 years ago
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(In reply to Vincent Lefevre from comment #8)
I can't reproduce the issue with the official Firefox 93 binary (neither with Nightly). So it could be a Debian specific bug.
Thanks for the info. In this case, I'm closing this as Invalid.
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Comment 10•4 years ago
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Note, however, that it might be due to a race condition triggered by both the way the code is compiled and the hardware. This could explain why other users cannot reproduce the bug even with the Debian package.
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Comment 11•3 years ago
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FYI, I can no longer reproduce this bug with the firefox 99.0-1 Debian package.
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Comment 12•3 years ago
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Well, on my usual machine with my usual profile, pasting with the mouse in the "Search the web" input no longer works at all (Ctrl-V still works, though). No such issue with a new profile.
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Comment 13•3 years ago
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And this also occurs with the official FF 99 binary!
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Comment 14•3 years ago
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I've eventually found the cause of this new issue, and this is apparently a completely different bug (as it cannot occur just with a new profile). I've just reported it as bug 1763745.
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