444684 - command + A,C,V don't work when in text area

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P3)

Description

[Ilia Davidovich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

This website does automatic conversion from translit to Cyrillic characters. In previous Firefox version, the key combination for copy-paste operation (command +A,C,V,X) was working fine, in 3.1 instead of functionality the character is typed instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.translit.ru
2.type "qwerty" in text area, than do 'command +A', the "qщертя"  will appear
3.
Actual Results:  
qщертя

Expected Results:  
Instead there must be "qщерты" highlighted.

Only this specific web site suffers from the described behavior. When using mouse to highlight, copy and paste there is no problem.

Comment 1

[Ilia Davidovich]

The problem is present only in OS X

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This is a regression caused by the patch for bug 398514.

The problem doesn't happen with the 2008-04-07 Minefield nightly
(which doesn't have this patch), but does happen with the 2008-04-08
nightly (which does have it).

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We should probably fix this regression in Firefox 3.1 at least...

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Doesn't really meet the "wanted" criteria (security, stability, regression from
maintenance release) for 1.9.0.x. However, we'll look at a reviewed and baked patch.