Closed Bug 652356 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

"Paste & Go" overwrites current text.

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: fornos.de.algodres, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 Instead of adding the text to the location and follow the new link, it uses the next text as the full link. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select and copy the text "watch?v=CD2LRROpph0" (with Ctrl+C) (without quotes) 2. Write in the location bar http://www.youtube.com/ 3. Put the text selection cursor after what you wrote (with the text being unselected) 4. Right-click and select "Paste & go". Actual Results: The browser follows the location "watch?v=CD2LRROpph0" Expected Results: The browser should follow the location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0" The browser should have followed the location "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0"
This is intentional behaviour. See Bug 599793
We do not want to do this per bug 599793.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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