277871 - Keyboard copy from message box (alert) does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31655

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Timothy C. Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

With IE, you can press ctrl-c when a message box (alert) is up and it will copy
the contents of the message box to the clipboard. This extremely helpful for
debugging complex code as the contents of a dump can be copied and pasted into a
text editor / email ...

Please give some serious consideration to this simple feature. This is one
feature that I test for and miss regularily with Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.send js alert('xxx')
2.press ctrl-c when alert is up
3.press ctrl-v in text editor

Actual Results:  
Nothing copied / pasted.

Expected Results:  
Text editor should get the copied text from the alert

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See also bug 60513

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31655 ***