270161 - Selection is limited/truncated to 255 chars on MacOSX

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Troiepolsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Here is one of the responsible strings :
<li>|PostFix is currently at v2.0.16, and the version with Panther is - at least
- misconfigured; run 'sendmail -v', and you'll note that setgid_group is *still*
set -- incorrectly -- to "postdrop", rather than "maildrop" per instructions. 
Trying to launch the| PostFix server without correcting this will fail ...
(there seem to be other hints showing up about PostFix)
  </li>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the URL
2. view the truncated lines 
3. a select and copy the line string is also limited/truncated to 255 chrs



Expected Results:  
View, copy, preview and print the complete text.
Avoid truncated lines in the layout by enabling wrapping so as inside tables

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The problem is the long line that starts with:
"config_args='-Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile"
it's inside a <pre> and that what makes the table so wide. The layout is
correct for the given markup.

As for the selection being limited to 255 chars - it could be that your OS or
window system can't handle more?  (I have no problem copy-pasting the entire
page into a text editor on Linux)

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

works for me in camino. i don't know what the issue is. the mac clipboard code
isn't restricted to 255chars.

if the entire page copies, but some lines are truncated, that's a gecko problem,
not an OS problem.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Works for me, Firefox 1.0+ 20050129 OSX 10.3.latest

Comment 4

[Vasily Koroslev]

Works for me under:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907
Firefox/1.4

Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.2)

Comment 5

[Frankie]

Still WFM, no other reports since original submission.