639147 - In Composer, copy and paste of links not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 647682

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Knox Long]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110123 SeaMonkey/2.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110123 SeaMonkey/2.0.12

When I am using Composer and try to copy a link of the form
../../Science/Research/NGC4449/NGC4449.html

or

file:///Users/long/WFC3/public_html/Persistence/Figs/DarkStar_sub_100305.jpg

from the same page or from another page (opened with the Browser).  The link is lost.  The problem is only for internal link, and does not occur when one copies a standard html link, like

http://www.lsstcorp.org/meeting/all-hands-meeting



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page in composer
2. Create some links to an internal file (and some to an external site)
3. Try copying and pasting to a different part of the page
Actual Results:  
Internal links do not appear and are not saved.  That is when you save and display the page, the links are missing,  or for that matter if you just try to look at the link in Composer it will be missing

Expected Results:  
All of the links should be transferred.

I regard this is as a fairly serious problem, serious enough to switch away from regular usage of Composer (one of SeaMonkey's most important features).  Otherwise, I could just use FireFox and Thuderbird

Comment 1

[Gerard Belanger]

Attachment: Simple HTML file to test this bug

This file created to allow easy bug testing.

Comment 2

[Gerard Belanger]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110320 SeaMonkey/2.0.13

Bug appeared in Seamonkey 2.0.12.
Duplicated on Windows XP and Windows 7 platforms.