243205 - 'file' inputs on forms should have same context menu as 'text' inputs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Michael Newton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040406 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040406 Firefox/0.8.0+

For a form input of type 'text,' there is a context menu containing text-centric
items (cut, paste, undo.)  The context menu for an input of type 'file' is the
same context menu as for any random place on the page.  It should probably be
the same for both.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106354 ***

Comment 2

[Michael Newton]

That bug is for Seamonkey, this bug is for Firefox.  Fixing that bug will have
no effect on Firefox's XUL.

Comment 3

[Prognathous]

Attachment: Testcase: 'File' vs. 'Text' input fields

Comment 4

[timeless]

reporter: that bug is about xul core. fixing that bug is essential for any fix
to any xul consumer. it happens that firefox is a xul consumer.

please be nice to the volunteer qa who work very hard to limit the number of
open bugs.

Comment 5

[Michael Newton]

Okay, guess I didn't read the other bug carefully enough.  So if the underlying
menu is fixed will Firefox's menu pick up on the change?  Or will it need some
changes made to Firefox's chrome?  If not, feel free to mark this back as duplicate.
And I do appreciate all the volunteer work that's gone into making the best
browser out there.  I'm doing some now, I hope.  If you're referring to the
terseness of my previous comment, I was probably just in a hurry or something. :)

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Duping again based on comment 4

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106354 ***

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Reopening this poor drug-around bug: it can depend on bug 106354 if we would
really rather have the glaringly wrong context menu instead of a little
weirdness, but it isn't a dup. As timeless showed by turning it on for Seamonkey
in bug 172047 comment 14 you can actually have the editing options on <input
type="file">, they're just odd in that right-clicking the button also lets you
edit text in the textbox (at least, that's the only oddness I see or saw
mentioned). Apparently Seamonkey's survived that for a couple of years now. But
before or after a bug 106354 fix, we would need to change our menu code.

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 276052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: patch

Turns on the edit options, lets the weirdness fall where it may.

Comment 10

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 362591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

considered Bug 345195 has replaced the anonymous text field with simple text, I'd say this is no more valid