297153 - Password type field should not allow to drag text

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sachin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

You can drag & drop text from a password type field to another textbox or
password type field, the text dropped though is not the actual "password" but
"*****". I think it's more intuitive if the dragging from password fields is not
allowed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto any website which has a password field and another text box.
2. Enter password and drag the text using mouse.
3. Drop the text into the other text box.

Actual Results:  
The other text box will show "******" (no. of * is equal to the length of the
text entered in password field).

Expected Results:  
Should not allow dragging from password field.

Comment 1

[Sachin]

Found another issue with Dragging & dropping text: if you drag text from one
textbox to another, you cannot drag & drop the text back from the second textbox
to first textbox.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Found another issue with Dragging & dropping text: if you drag text from one
> textbox to another, you cannot drag & drop the text back from the second textbox
> to first textbox.

Reproducible with Mozilla 1.8b1, Mozilla 1.8b2/20050607 and Deer Park a1, it
seems that the text from the first textbox is not really deselected when you
select the text in the second textbox. Maybe this should be a seperate Core bug?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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