371049 - Unable to copy email text to clipboard

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kaix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: 20070116

Sometimes copying text from an email to the clipboard either by right clicking and selecting 'Copy' or by hitting <ctrl> <c> does not work. Appears to be random. Extremely annoying.

Does not appear to matter whether the email is text or HTML formatted.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Unknown
Actual Results:  
Text is not copied.

Expected Results:  
Text is copied.

This has been a problem for a very long time.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

This needs more information -- copying text to clipboard definitely works on all platforms whenever I checked, Shredder trunk nightlies btw.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this is an old problem with focus, iirc since fixed.
please comment if you see this in 2.0.0.17

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.