587082 - Paste from clipboard fails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ulf Zibis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6

The normal behaviour of CTRL+V to paste text into a message composition fails
after copying it from external application (here NetBeans IDE).




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy text from 'About' window of NetBeans IDE to clipboard by CTRL+C
2. Open a new compose window or answer existing, focus on the message body
3. CTRL+V fails to paste the text in the message body

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Text is pasted into message body at cursor location


Note:
http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189440

Comment 1

[Ulf Zibis]

Sorry for my error! Correction:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8)
Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The normal behaviour of CTRL+V to paste text into a website form fails
after copying it from external application (here NetBeans IDE 6.9.1).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run NetBeans IDE 6.9.1 <www.netbeans.org> and click Help->About
2. Mark versioning information with mouse and copy text to clipboard by CTRL+C
2. Open http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/bug_form.html (needs login), focus on the 'Description' field
3. CTRL+V fails to paste the text in the form's text field

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Text is pasted into the form's text field at cursor location

Comment 2

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of Firefox 5?

Comment 3

[Ulf Zibis]

I don't have FF 5, but the paste seems to work in my FF 4.0.1.
So the bug seems fixed.

Comment 4

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Glad to hear it's working