309179 - Copy and Cut doesnt work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305032

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Often (thats not always!) cutting or copying information out of the address-bar
doesnt work. There is just simply nothing copied into the memory. When pasting
into (for example) notepad, I get older information that was copied before
copying the URL. Also, when coppying a link location via the right-click menu
nothing is copied. This is very strange and very annoying.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a URL or a Link Location using the right-click menu.


Actual Results:  
There was nothing copied into the memory.

Expected Results:  
Copy the information to the clipboard.

I am using the Mozilla FireFox Bèta 1.

Comment 1

[Rick]

I've forgotten to add that this bug appears at two completely different machines
of me (WinXP Home and WinXP Prof). These machines are also in two completely
different locations and networks.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 220900.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Or bug 308869 and bug 308909.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Rick, could you please test this in one of the latest builds to see if the
patch for bug 305032 fixed this?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 5

[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 6

[Eric Skiff]

There's a possibility that the  FlashBlock extension causes this problem for most people. The FlashBlock autoupdate on 1.0.4 adn later caused chrome corruption. 

FlashBlock 1.5 supposedly fixes this bug, but I've tried just about everything, and once you have this ugly bug, you're pretty much stuck with it. 

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 332702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[busjive2]

I still frequently see this in Firefox 1.5.0.1

Comment 9

[Andreas Morawietz]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I still frequently see this in Firefox 1.5.0.1
> 

As far I can see, it is fixed in Firefox 2.0a ...  but unfortunately, it's not fixed in firefox 1.5.0.2 . Please fix that for 1.5.0.3 !

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

This could also be bug 133439.

Comment 11

[Stijn de Witt]

I can confirm that this bug still exists in Firefox 1.5.0.2 with all updates (as of april 26, 2006). Tested on Windows XP.

I have had this problem many times before. It seems to get 'triggered' sometimes, usually by switching between apps. Personally I have had it most when switching between local machine and remote desktop connection, but it also happens in other situations. After it's triggered copy does not work anymore. You can 'untrigger' it by switching between tabs / opening a new tab and copy something from there. 

Very hard to reproduce, but it definitely exists!

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response from reporter, Rick. duping.
Rick if you still see this problem on a current version please reopen the bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305032 ***

Comment 13

[Rick]

I currently do not see this bug anymore in 1.5.0.4.