326298 - Cannot paste text at start of line in HTML compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 299343

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[doug.kramer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Version 1.5 (20051201)

This is pretty simple and fundamental.  See the steps to reproduce.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit > Account Settings > Composition & Addressing > check "Compose messages in HTML format"

2. Type any text into the compose window, say "foo bar"

3. Copy text from any application (say, "bar" that you just typed) and try to paste it ahead of "foo".  This fails.  Nothing happens.

4. If you go back to step 1 and uncheck "Compose messages in HTML format", then the paste in step 3 succeeds.


Actual Results:  
After step 3, actually see:

foo bar

Expected Results:  
After step 3, should see:

barfoo bar

I searched Tbunderbird on Bugzilla and could not find this bug.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 299343?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I believe it is a dupe.

Fix is checked in to Core for Firefox 1.8.0.1, so it will (I believe) be part 
of TB 1.5.0.2, and should be in nightly builds now if you care to use those.
(I was using the 1.8-branch build from Jan 29 for several weeks with no particular problems.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299343 ***