221577 - paste with middle mouse button not always working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Mongenet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

Text copy with the middle mouse button (XFree86 4.1 on Debian stable)
to a Mozilla window (from a Mozilla or other window) does not always work.
This bug is quite old so they should other reports, but I found none.
I don't know how to reproduce it, but it happens quite often with the
mail composer.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1)  Are you pasting from a remote app?

2)  Are you pasting large amounts of text (more than 4kb)?

Comment 2

[Marc Mongenet]

1) no, local apps, typical desktop usage.
2) no, any number of letters.

Here is an example with the mail composer:
1) The mail window is open, with 3 panes, a message displayed in the message pane
2) I hit the "Create a new message" button
3) I highlight three letters in the message pane
4) middle-click in the To: field (it has the default focus), it copies
5) middle-click in the Subject: field, no result

I didn't worked when I began this report, and now it works, don't know why.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem with current builds?  The pasting stuff on Linux got pretty
heavily modified in 1.7a...

Comment 4

[Marc Mongenet]

I installed Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040218
and the problem seems to be gone. You can close the bug for me.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marc, thanks for testing!