652356 - "Paste & Go" overwrites current text.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Forneira]

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"

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

This is intentional behaviour.
See Bug 599793

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

We do not want to do this per bug 599793.