338950 - textarea gets cut of when changing to another tab and back

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Leonard Tulipan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

A seen in the above url.
Open that page, then CTRL-T (File - New Tab) and open another webpage. if you change back to the Testcase and scroll down, the textarea is cut of at lorem ipsum paragraph 53 - but the original textarea has 63 paragraphs. It doesn't matter if you scroll around before changing to the other tab. You always get reseted to the beginning of the text in the textarea.
Example html is from an open source content management system.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Testcase URL
1a. Textarea has 63 paragraphs
2. CTRL-T for new tab
3. go to www.mozilla.org or any other url
4. click on the tab of the Testcase
5. Textarea has only 53 paragraphs left

Actual Results:  
Textarea is cut off

Expected Results:  
Textarea should stay at the scroll state i was las in, or at least have the full contents of the textarea present

Comment 1

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

Tested to posters specifications but I can't reproduce this on the trunk or branch...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060521 Minefield/3.0a1 - Build ID: 2006052203

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060510 BonEcho/2.0a2 - Build ID: 2006051002

Comment 2

[Antony Delaney]

I also can't reproduce this on the trunk, branch or on 1.5.0.3

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060428 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Please retest with a fresh installation in a new clean directory, in Firefox's safe-mode or with a new profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 4

[Leonard Tulipan]

Sorry, should've checked without extensions first.
The culprit is the Google Firefox Toolbar. With that extension alone the aforementioned behaviour can be observered

Comment 5

[Leonard Tulipan]

Bug report send to google toolbar team

Comment 6

[Richard Silverstein]

I'm not sure why this bug is reported as resolved.  I'm using FF 1.5.0.6 & I have the same problem.  I note someone below saying this may be caused by Google Toolbar, which I'm using.

Has anyone reported a fix for this?  It's driving me crazy.  Whenever I write a long blog post & visit another open tag, the text gets truncated.  If I save the edited post before realizing the text has been removed then I've lost all the previous work I've created.  This has happened to me numerous times.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #6)
>
Issues with extensions should be reported to the extension author so he can fix the problem. In the meantime you might want to try the Googlebar Lite extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/492/

Comment 8

[Annie Sullivan]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I'm not sure why this bug is reported as resolved.  I'm using FF 1.5.0.6 & I
> have the same problem.  I note someone below saying this may be caused by
> Google Toolbar, which I'm using.
> 
> Has anyone reported a fix for this?  It's driving me crazy.  Whenever I write a
> long blog post & visit another open tag, the text gets truncated.  If I save
> the edited post before realizing the text has been removed then I've lost all
> the previous work I've created.  This has happened to me numerous times.
> 


This is fixed in version 2.1.20060713 of the Google Toolbar. It's available from toolbar.google.com, and it should show up as an update in the extension manager.

Comment 9

[Richard Silverstein]

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)

> This is fixed in version 2.1.20060713 of the Google Toolbar. It's available
> from toolbar.google.com, and it should show up as an update in the extension
> manager.

Thanks, Annie for that update.  I switched over to Googlebar in the hopes that I would avoid the issue with it.  Though I disabled the Google Toolbar I also updated it to the newer version in case I ever decide to go back to using it.

It would be nice when bug are resolved if the person who marks that it is resolved would also explain briefly how it was resolved.