244598 - Copy Link Location puts nothing on the clipboard

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Dave Kirk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Copy Link Location puts zilch on the clipboard.

Yes - I did a search and know this has been reported way back when, but the
first time I've seen this is in the latest 1.7RC2 release and it's a major
irritant.  It's hard for the untrained eye to see in the huge list whether or
not it's been resolved in this version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on any link.
2. Select "Copy Link Location"
3. Paste into another application - nothing shows.

Actual Results:  
Failure of paste operation.

Expected Results:  
Pasted the link.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

WFM 1.7RC2 and 1.8a1, PC/WinXP

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM 1.7RC2 and 1.8a1, PC/WinXP

on reading this bug, I´ve tried to copy & paste the 3 links in your comment,
i.e. comment #1, mailto:Bill, and reply, and paste to this textbox, to no avail.
I had to minimize the navigator, restore, and then the last item copied could be
pasted. I´m seeing this on Win98SE 512 MB RAM, and Win98, 96 MB RAM, for some
months now, and I assume, there is a bug about this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040517

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

Reporter, is this reproducible, right after starting Mozilla, or do you see this
only after some time of browser usage?
Is this on links only, or also on normal text?
Do you use quickstart, is your computer always on, or a laptop?
Do you use themes or extensions?
 

Found maybe related bugs:
Bug 227058 copy paste method disabled from address bar and form input area [focus]

Bug 228646 keyboard focus randomly lost and cannot be regained except by opening
menus with mouse

Comment 4

[Dave Kirk]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, is this reproducible, right after starting Mozilla, or do you see this
> only after some time of browser usage?

Right now, it's working again.  I'm a bit taken aback.  Maybe you're right about
it being after some use.  I'll report back on this one.

> Is this on links only, or also on normal text?

As soon as I can reproduce it with links, I'll try normal text too.  Please
stand by.

> Do you use quickstart, is your computer always on, or a laptop?

Desktop.  Quickstart.

> Do you use themes or extensions?

Nope.

Dave K

Comment 5

[Dave Kirk]

This is still an issue, though I can't see any consistency.  I'm using a
download manager (Fresh) and Mozilla won't let my use Copy Link Location to cut
n paste the download URL into the download manager.  Tried to do this this
morning (29 May) and the clipboard was empty.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[shattered]

I have a similar problem with firefox 1.0.7 on windows 2000 -- any operation that should put text into cliboard may fail (the clipboard is then cleared).  This doesn't happen right after startup -- perhaps 5 or 10 minutes into browsing session.  Copying with drag'n'drop is not affected.

Comment 9

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #8)
> This doesn't happen right after startup -- perhaps 5 or 10 minutes into
> browsing session.  

This may be a focus problem. If you right-click, ist the 'Copy' Entry enabled?
After copying, is the 'Paste' Entry enabled, i.e. not greyed out?
I'm seeing this sometimes after a long session with a lot of tabs. Copying doesn't copy, so Paste isn't enabled, or the stuff copied before is still in the clipboard. To reenable copying I minimize the browser and restore again, after that I can select, copy&paste.

Comment 10

[shattered]

(In reply to comment #9)
> This may be a focus problem. If you right-click, ist the 'Copy' Entry enabled?
> After copying, is the 'Paste' Entry enabled, i.e. not greyed out?

Yes, Copy is enabled, and after copying, Paste is enabled too.  But nothing is pasted, so the clipboard must be empty.

Comment 11

[shattered]

bug 295477 is similar to this one

Comment 12

[shattered]

Microsoft Remote Desktop client is part of the problem -- once I close all its windows, I can copy/paste from/to Mozilla just fine.

Comment 13

[shattered]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840872 ("You may not be able to paste an item in an Office 2003 program after you connect to a Windows Server 2003-based server that is running Terminal Server") might be related, too.

Comment 14

[shattered]

shouldn't this bug be REOPENED?