312159 - Empty lines appear in source when copying to external editor.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198391

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Niek Kouwenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

When viewing the source of any page, you see the source code like it should be
shown, but when you copy a couple of lines (or all) to an external editor like
Notepad or even OpenOffice.org empty lines appear in the middle of the code.

These lines are randomly appearing, but never two after eachother. (As far as I
know.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any page
2. View source
3. Copy the source
4. Paste the source in Notepad

Actual Results:  
Extra empty lines appear in the middle of the source code.

Expected Results:  
No extra newlines should be displayed, but it should display the same as it does
in the Firefox source viewer.

This bugs has been around since I used Firefox, that would be version 0.7.

Comment 1

[Niek Kouwenberg]

I tested it on Ubuntu Linux, and there we've got the same problem.

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051119 Firefox/1.6a1

Confirmed.

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198391 ***