533797 - When composing mail, pasting a URL or e-mail address into the message sends the entry point back to the beginning of the message.

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0

If one types a new e-mail message which is to include a URL or an e-mail address within the message; and one copies and pastes the URL or address into the body of the message, the text entry-point jumps back to the very beginning of the message, which can be very annoying if one is touch-typing and does not notice that the entry point is no longer at the right point in the message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a URL or an e-mail address.
2. Start composing a new message.
3. Paste the copied URL or address into the message.
Actual Results:  
The text entry-point jumps back to the very beginning of the typed message.

Expected Results:  
The text entry-point should remain after the pasted URL or e-mail address.

Mac G4 (PPC), OS X 10.4.11. CopyPaste 2.7.5 used for copying and pasting. (NB: CopyPaste Pro can be erratic about what is pasted, but v. 2.7.5 is stable and reliable.)

Comment 1

[:Hb]

Does this happen only for HTML-formatted mails? If so, please create a sample mail, save it as .eml file and attach it to this report.

Does this happen when you copy the URL or email address from a plain text editor?

Comment 2

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: New e-mail with URL copied from address bar

Comment 3

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: New e-mail with a URL copied from within another e-mail

Comment 4

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: New plain-text e-mail with a URL copied from another e-mail

Comment 5

[:Hb]

Attachment 417382 [details] isn't a plain-text mail.

Composer and Editor with HTML-Mails have problems with some kind of clipboard content. See bug 527905.

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

Tested against current trunk (SM2.6) and cannot reproduce in message compose or web composer.
Could you test against SM2.3 and see the issue is still there?

Comment 7

[:Hb]

Could not reproduce in SM 2.3 under Windows. Bug was initially reported on PowerPC. What now?

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

Hopefully the original reporter or someone else on OSX could test it against SM2.3

Comment 9

[Michael Graubart]

I'm afraid someone else will have to test this on SM 2.3. My computer is a G4 (PPC) with OS 10.4.11, and SM 2.3 will not run on it. 

Michael Graubart (original reporter).

Comment 10

[:Hb]

Back to 2.0 Branch.