288292 - Installed 1.0.2 and made Firefox default browser. Now cannot block and copy text. As soon as I release lh button, blocked text cancels.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dr. Arnold P. Harris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I went back to IE and find that I can block, copy and paste text from there. 
Why won't it work with Firefox?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Block text
2.Release lh button (in preparation of pressing rh button to COPY)
3.Text unblocks

Actual Results:  
??  Can't copy text.

Expected Results:  
Blocked text should have remained blocked while I press rh button and select COPY.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[gh]

Copy and Paste - Bug in Firefox

(Different versions, different OS)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220900

Workaround not working for copy & paste - bug (In reply to comment #142)

*To run clipbrd.exe (Clipboard Viewer) does not solve the copy and paste
problem, neither does opening in a new window.
*Only workaround for me is to copy from one tab, paste in note/text/any-pad,
swich to the new pad, copy from anypad and paste it. This only works if I swich
windows before the second copy and paste, otherwise the clipboard is blank again
*argh*. Awful if you work with tabs, wikis or anything.
*Other workaround is to work with one instance of firefox and do all copy and
paste operations from or 2 opera...
*Drag and Drop sometimes works too...


Situation:

Copy and paste between different tabs or windows does not work at all (100%).
This problem does not affect other applications, just firefox. It seems that the
clipboard is deleted (for security reasons?!) when swiching from one tab/window
to another, but not when working with external programs...

System:

WinXP_Pro_SP1, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (happened in the earlier version I had installed
2), Extensions: DOM Inspector, Wikipedia, Greasemonkey, CopyPlainText (tried is
as a solution for the copy and paste problem), RoboForm;

Unsuccessful tries:

1.Reinstalling after cleaning all data from previous installs
2.New User Profile
3.Open Clipboard
4.CopyPlainText (tried is as a solution for the copy and paste problem)
5.Work only with Firefox Windows, not with tabs
6.Upgrade to Firefox 1.0.7
7.Playing around with security settings

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Suggested workarounds thus far (comment #142):
 
1. Open the current page in a new window (I usually just open any page in a new
window and check copy/paste there).

2. Start -> Run -> clipbrd.exe (Clipboard Viewer) 

3.Copy from one tab, paste in note/text/any-pad, swich to the new pad, copy from
anypad and paste it. This only works if I swich windows before the second copy
and paste, otherwise the clipboard is blank again 

4.Work with one instance of firefox and do all copy and paste operations from or
2 opera...

5.Drag and Drop sometimes works too...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bug 220900 is not related - in this bug, he doesn't get to the copy step because the text is not selected.

WFM  (note: reporter e-m address is bad)