612276 - Confluence 3.2 edit box does not work properly with Firefox 4.0 beta 7

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[cplarosa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: 4.0 beta 7

The editor in Atlassian Confluence v3.2 doesn't work properly with Firefox 4.0 beta 7 when attempting to edit existing content.  It replicates the existing content multiple times when the editor box is opened.  It seems to work okay for a new (blank) page, however.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a new document in Confluence 3.2 with the following content:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

2.  Save the document.
The document will display correctly as entered above.

3.  Edit the document (click "Edit" in Confluence)

Actual Results:  
The document appears as follows in the editor:

Line 1
Line 1
Line 1
Line 2
Line 1
Line 2
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

This problem did not occur with Firefox 4.0 beta 6 or earlier.


Expected Results:  
The document should appear as follows in the editor:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3


I'm not sure if this is a Firefox bug or an incompatibility with a hack in the Confluence editor code.  A bug has already been submitted for Confluence here:

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21233

This can be reproduced by following the steps above using the Confluence Sandbox here:

http://sandbox.onconfluence.com/

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Does it work with Firefox 3.6.x and/or an older 4 Beta?
Does this happen with a recent Nightly, too ?
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

This looks a lot like bug 608718.  I'm marking it dependent on that bug for now.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

Taking for now.

Comment 4

[Eliot Lear]

I've seen this behavior as well on another confluence server.

Comment 5

[iluxan]

Same problem for me with Confluence 3.0.

FWIW, It used to work for me fine in an earlier beta - b5 or b6 - and just broke with b7.

Comment 6

[Peter]

I can confirm this behaviour with Confluence 3.3

Comment 7

[Allen George]

Same behavior in Confluence 3.4. Same as iluxan - it worked fine in earlier betas, but broke with beta 7.

Comment 8

[Rainer Heynke]

I also confirm this behaviour with 3.3 

We tested on two OS X Computers.

Comment 9

[(no longer active)]

This seems to have been fixed in the latest nightlites.