211569 - Can't paste into address bar in the first browser window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Bogdan Stancescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I have the browser configured to start with an empty page. If I try pasting
anything (including plain text copied from Notepad) into the first browser
window's address bar nothing happens. As far as I can remember, this has started
to happen some time during the 1.4 releases, but I'm not 100% certain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure Mozilla to start with Browser and Mail
2. Configure Mozilla to start with an blank browser page
3. Close Mozilla
4. Start Mozilla
5. Copy text from Notepad
6. Select address bar on the first browser page and hit "CTRL+V"

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Pasted the text in the address bar

I'm not sure what would've happened if I didn't have Mozilla configured to start
with a blank page. I'll add an additional comment documenting that after I
finish filling in this bug.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stancescu]

If I configure Mozilla to start with an URL (home page) then it works as expected.

Also, I forgot to mention that even if it's configured to start with a blank
page, subsequent new windows work as expected, so the problem can be avoided by
hitting "CTRL+N"; "CTRL+V" instead of simply "CTRL+V" in step 6 above (thus
opening a new window prior to pasting). But that's still annoying, as you can
imagine. :)

Comment 2

[Martin Leonhartsberger]

I have the exact same problem.
But I'm using Linux, so the plattform doesn't seem to be the problem.
I also tested this on a clean 1.4 install with only the middle-click scroll xpe
applied.

I think the severity should be increased to normal, as this is really quite
annoying, because i often copy urls from somewhere.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->XPApps

Comment 4

[Bogdan Stancescu]

That's curious, now it works for me, in Mozilla 1.6 (to be exact, Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113). What I did when
this originally happened was to start Mozilla with only the mail window and then
pop open the first browser window as I needed it, if I remember correctly.
(Wouldn't bet money on this though.)

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Bogdan, Please close your bug when it no longer fails for you.

WFM 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060625 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

->WFM per comment 4