612856 - Extra space added to clipboard when copying a word; makes copy-paste of passwords fail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 437679

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Aaron Kaplan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Remi/fc11 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Remi/fc11 Thunderbird/3.1.6

When I copy the last word in a line (i.e. a word that's followed by a newline), a space is appended to the end of the word in the clipboard. For example, when I have an email like the following

  Your login information is as follows:
    username: johnsmith
    password: sEcret

if I copy the password and paste it into a login field, what gets pasted is not "sEcret" but "sEcret " with a trailing space, which makes the login fail.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaplan]

Bug 597795 sounds potentially related, but in my case the content-type is text/plain, not quoted-printable.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Bug 597795 sounds potentially related, but in my case the content-type is
> text/plain, not quoted-printable.

It's a duplicate but from another bug probably in MailNews Core or Core /editor