Closed Bug 202137 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

cut/copy and paste is broken

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bd.smith, Assigned: asa)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030414

cut/copy and paste will not work in anyway in build 2003041416

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
Try upgrading to a 15th April nightly build. It is working now, at least on an
homemade CVS trunk build, 1 hour old on Linux.


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030415
On Help/About Mozilla I got only a small 4-entry kontext menu: 

Copy
Select All
----------
Web Search for "..."
View Selection Source

If I´m selecting inside this box, I get the full context menue
Undo (Redo) | Cut Copy Paste Delete | Select All


Windows 2000, (up to date on Service Packs & patches)

I'm unable to get copy(cut) or paste to work on 1.4b or the May 12th 2003
Nightly build

Steps:
1) View this bug
2) Right click on any link and select "Copy Link Location"
3) Paste value into any input field.

2a) copy test from notepad and proceed to step 3

Note: Both the Edit and context menus have copy, cut, paste disabled even when
there is something in the clipboard and/or selected on the current page.
I also have problems with cut and paste not working properly on XP... 

In forms, composer, selection of general text or html using either
popup menus or hotkeys.

The problem is very strange in that sometimes switching out to another 
task and coming back seems to temporarily resolve the problem (i.e. 
I can cut and paste again briefly), however the problem quickly reappears. :(

I'm running the latest nightly build... 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030512
but I first noticed this issue last week
Flags: blocking1.4+
garth, if you don't know how to use a bugzilla feature, please don't use it:
the blocking1.4+ flag may only be set by members of drivers@mozilla.org which I
don't think you are.
You may request drivers' consideration by setting the blocking1.4? flag if you
choose to do so.
Flags: blocking1.4+
Andreas, apploggies for muffing that up.  
I do consider this to be a very serious broken feature on Windows...
Is it worthy of consideration for blocker status?
Garth: well, that depends on if this bug is _really_ seen by most or all XP
users. There are many bugs reported that are caused by installing bad extensions
or themes or whatever.

This bug is still unconfirmed. I also can't reproduce it with a current nightly
on Windows 2000. Especially comment #3 does not happen here.
Comment #2 sounds a bit different and the original bug report only says that
copy and paste does not work at all and the reporter never answered if the
problem still happens in later builds. 
Well, it does work here, so this cannot be a general problem.

Actually, Garth, you seem to be the only one that has this problem with current
builds. So you should try creating a new profile, try it on another computer,
ask yourself what extensions etc. you have installed that might have corrupted
something.

You _may_ always set the blocking? flag, but I'm not sure if it makes sense in
this case because unless other people have the same problem drivers will
probably assume the same as I do: that the problem is a very rare one and is
caused/triggered by something on your computer.
I'd like to jump in and say that I'm getting this on two windows 2000 machines.
 Cut, Copy and Past are grayed out in all  menus and the Ctl-C,V,X short cuts
also do not work.  It failed for me on the Beta release and the May-13 nightly.
 I've had to go back to 1.4a to get my work done. 

Also 4 others in my office (also under windows 2000) experienced the problem
before regressing back to 1.4a as well. 
Just installed the nightly, and it still exibits the cut/paste problem
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516
(Above typed in by hand becuase copy and paste do not work.  

Just noticed that the arrow keys no longer navigate in the TextArea.
I just: 
1) renamed my C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla directory
2) uninstalled mozilla
3) Deleted the C:\Program Files\mozilla.org directory
reinstalled the latest nightly build:
     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516
4) closed mozilla
5) renamed the new C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla
and renamed the old one back
6) restarted mozilla.

cut,copy,paste now work great.

If someone wants to track down what setting caused this, I still have one
machine that exhibits this bug.
Copy/paste is broken in IE too at the moment. Seems Mozilla 1.4b changed
something. Selecting text in notepad still works, but can't copy text from
either Mozilla or Explorer at the moment.
Since only very few persons do see this and you now even see this with IE, did
it come to your mind that maybe something else (not Mozilla) is the cause?
(I mean when e.g. every Application uses wrong fonts, why blame Mozilla first?)

Did you do any Windows update, install patches, update IE, install other
Programs before this problem began?

Keith, do you also see this in IE (on the machine that still has this problem)?
Just look at the copy/paste report problems that have been submitted the last
time. A lot. Many of them are still unconfirmed, but should be marked as
duplicate of this one. So I think more people see it than you realize.
I just rebooted. Both IE and Mozilla work fine now. Not sure if I rebooted after
installing it. But the problem definitely didn't exist then. Perhaps Keith can
just reboot the machine that still has the problems to see if that helps?
For me it does not occur anywhere except in mozilla.  reboot... 
The reboot did clear the problem.
WFM on WinXP SP1 trunk 2003081515.

Anyone here still experiencing problems with this ? If you are, please test it
using a recent nightly build from
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/>.

Keep in mind:
Always uninstall and delete the Mozilla application directory before installing
a new build.
Always test bugs using a clean profile.

If all is well, we will resolve this bug as WFM.
I wanted to add my observations of this problem. I am using the nightly build
from 2003.10.22 with the About string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031022
Firebird/0.7+

I noticed that Cut and Paste seem to work correctly, except when pasting to the
address line.

Reproducable: Always

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Select text and copy it to the clipboard
2.) Click in the address bar
3.) Hit CTRL+V. 

Nothing happens. The text is able to be pasted into other applications, any
place on the webpage, but will not paste into the address bar or the built in
google search bar.

The odd thing is that when I right click and select Paste or select paste from
the Edit menu, everything works as expected. I have no Extensions or Themes
installed (this is a clean copy of Phoenix).

I also tested my IE and there are no problems using it, so I am pretty sure it
is not a Windows problem. This did not occur with Phoenix .6 so it seems to be
something new.
*** Bug 202203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
unable to reproduce with the latest nightly build of windows Firebird or
SeaMonkey 1.6. Tested on windows XP and windows 98.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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