381008 - Copy menu item disabled after editing a post in VBulletin

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Razvan MIHAIU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Hi,



	I am using VBulletin 3.6.4 – a well known forum software. I am opening a discussion thread. Here I can copy & paste without issues. After this, I open a message in order to edit it using the standard VBulletin editor then the page is saved and I am returned to the thread. Now, the "copy" functionality is disabled. The only work-around is to reload the page.

Note:
	VB's editor is AJAX based. The page is not reloaded, but the text appears in the same page with the new (edited) content.

	Other browsers are working fine: Opera, IE …

	Firefox team: please fix "paste and/or copy" bugs with high priority. They are extremely annoying and it seems that there are a lot of people complaining about this. Well…. not exactly like my case, because AJAX was not involved in other bug-reports, but close. With this kind of errors I feel like going back to a Linux desktop in 1995. Currently, in Linux, these kinds of errors are unacceptable, and I hope that they will soon become unacceptable in Firefox.



Regards,
Razvan M.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an existing discussion thread in VBulletin;
2. Edit a message (do not chose the "Advanced editor" - that means you have to stick with the first editor that is opening)
3. edit the message then press Save
4. Now the copy button is always disabled; only a page reload can fix it.
Actual Results:  
Copy button is disabled. I am unable to copy anything with the mouse, the keyboard or using the menu. Copy functionality is disabled everywhere.

Expected Results:  
"Copy" function should not be disabled.

Allow the user to copy text !

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

I can reproduce on branch, but not in a current trunk build. This definitely feels like some sort of focus issue.

Comment 2

[Guillaume Boissiere]

The same issue can be seen here:  (Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows XP)
http://josephscott.org/code/js/eip/example.html

On that page, click on the last line to make the textarea appear in place of the text.  At that point, select some text, right click and the "Copy" menu is still enabled.

Then click "Cancel".  Try again to select some text on that page, right click and BOUM!  "Copy" is disabled in the context menu.

The cancel button code looks like this on this page:

EditInPlace._cancelClick = function(event, id) {
	if(!id) {
		id = Event.element(event).id.replace(/_cancel$/, '');
	}
	var id_opt = EditInPlace._getOptionsReference(id);

	// Remove the edit form and mouseover class.
	Element.remove(id + '_editor');
	Element.removeClassName(id, id_opt['editfield_class']);

	// Display empty edit text if the id was empty.
	if($(id).innerHTML == '') {
		id_opt['id_empty'] = true;
		$(id).innerHTML = id_opt['empty_text'];
		Element.addClassName(id, id_opt['empty_class']);
	}

	// Show the original id again.
	Element.show(id);
};

Something in that code must cause Firefox to incorrectly disable the "Copy" menu option.

Comment 3

[Jay Moran (jaym/lazvon)]

I have the same problems. I'm currently tracking Bug 375887 which seems to be related. Definitely can confirm this specific bug report happens with me as well.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

no activity for a while, closing.