596001 - All tabs in textareas converted to spaces

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[LegNeato]

User @devolute on Twitter says:

"Firefox 3.6.9 (win) converting all my tabs in textareas to spaces. Very annoying. Can't find anything on Bugzilla"

I know we took some editor changes in 3.6.9. This will track the investigation to see if it is indeed a regression. Additional details:

"1st spotted in my #modxcms editing textarea, but i tried elsewhere & it happens everywhere (richtext or not). WinXP SP3"

"Only started recently. No weird s/w installed"

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

Here's a test case.  Copy the data from the first textarea and copy them into the second one after "foo".

I'm pretty sure that we've taken a fix for this on 1.9.2 after 3.6.9/10.  It WFM on trunk, and I'm going to try a branch nightly right now...

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

OK, this is a dupe of bug 592592, which has landed on 1.9.2.  I tested the test case in a Namoroka nightly and it worked correctly.

I'm leaving this bug open, however, to add an automated test for this.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

Attachment: Test case

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f5fbd362c8cd

Comment 6

[Balint]

Thanks for the quick reaction to Bug 601497. Is this fix going to make it in the Firefox 3.6.* releases?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes, see comment 2.  It'll ship in 3.6.11.