598004 - Firefox does not handle properly CRLF, problems when copy-pasting from gedit to firefox

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stéphane]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

When opening a file created in Windows with gedit and copy-pasting the text into a text field in Firefox the result have extra lines.

This happens only with gedit (I tested with a few other text editors for GNU\Linux including mouspad, Abiword and Open Office Writer and the problem did not occured). It did neither occurred when using Wine's notepad. It happened already with Firefox 2.0.0.14 and with all Firefox versions I used since. It happens with text editing fields of any website (tested on Wikipedia, Google Translate and W3C Validator direct input).

This bug has actually already been reported to gnome/gedit (see here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537299) but the result was that the bug was declared to be Firefox's error.
Precisely Jesse van den Kieboom   [gedit developer] wrote:
This is really a problem of firefox I would say, because it should be able to
handle CRLF.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a text using CR+LF with gedit and copy it
2. Paste it into a text field of a web page in Firefox 
3. submit your text
Actual Results:  
the text have unwanted extra lines

Expected Results:  
the text should be similar to original (no extra lines)

Bug only happens with gedit but the error might be coming from Firefox
See the bug report on Gnome's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537299

Comment 1

[Stéphane]

Attachment: test text using CR+LF

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, Firefox 4.0.1 has been released, and it features significant improvements over previous releases. Can you please update to Firefox 4.0.1 or later, and retest your bug? Please also create a fresh profile (
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles), update your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicktime, Reader, etc) and update your graphics driver and Operating system to the latest versions available. 

If you still continue to see this issue, please comment. If you do not, please close this bug as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME

filter: prefirefox4uncobugs

Comment 3

[Stéphane]

Thanks for your answer
Unfortunately I have no time for making updates and tests now but I will when I will be in holidays in about a month