58700 - Middleclick paste fails with silent clipboard error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
   Set "middlemouse.paste" to true (or use unix)
   Load Mozilla
   Right click on a link
   Middle click on the document instance

EXPECTED RESULTS
   You navigate to the page whose URI you copied to the clipboard

ACTUAL RESULTS
   Component returned failure code: 0x80004005, nsIClipboard.getData in 
   JS frame :: chrome://navigator/content/navigator.js :: readFromClipboard ::
   line 1542, data: no.

The exception is caught and silently dropped, and we fail to paste the link.

This was tested on Windows 2000 using a Netscape commercial branch build from 
Oct 30 2000. From browsing LXR it seems to me that on the trunk the code will 
only get called if you middle-click on a link, because of a regression that I 
think was introduced by Blake recently. I don't know if there is a bug on that.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a duplicate of bug 58333?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i think so...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58333 ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Walker]

vrfy dup

Comment 4

[Vaclav Dvorak]

Perhaps nobody really uses middle-click pasting on Windows... This bug is NOT
fixed (on Windows), and I don't believe it's a dupe of bug 58333. See 111337
comment 19 - there it surfaced again. I get the exact error message that is
mentioned in this bug's description.

Comment 5

[Vaclav Dvorak]

Changing to the component that I believe is appropriate for this, based on the
component descriptions, and reassigning.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
>    Set "middlemouse.paste" to true (or use unix)
>    Load Mozilla
>    Right click on a link
>    Middle click on the document instance

does this mean middle click in the LINK?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM on trunk (SM & FF), windows XP - can't find what fixed it.