337569 - when pasted long text, the pasted text will be unreadable

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Evan Yan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060508 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: ThunderBird version 1.5 (20051201)

when pasted long text, like thousands of characters, the pasted text will be unreadable.
It often needed when paste a long URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. double click on a long text, like a long URL, to copy it to clipboard;
2. click "Write" on thunderbird toolbar, to compose a mail;
3. click middle button of the mouse to paste the text. The text may not be pasted unless you click middle button several times.

Actual Results:  
the text is unreadable, see the attached screenshot.

Expected Results:  
the text can be read.

sometimes it even cause thunderbird crash. I encountered once, but can not reproduce everytime.

Comment 1

[Evan Yan]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Do you have a pointer to a URL that is as long as that?  Or a sense of just how long the text needs to be to cause this symptom?  I just tried pasting a single "word" of over 6000 characters without a problem.

Comment 3

[Evan Yan]

It is not reproducable any more in trunk build and 1.8 branch build, but still reproducable in thunderbird 1.5 release build (I tested on 1.5.0.5), with a "word" of 6000 characaters.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=> WFM per reporter's comment 3.