Open Bug 762889 Opened 14 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Empty clipboard after browser restart & special warning message

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Gtk
Version:
13 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: dan_500, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0 Build ID: 20120601175215 Steps to reproduce: 1. Execute "firefox & firefox" 2. You will get the message "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." 3. Use the keys "Ctrl" + "C" to copy the text. 4. Close firefox 5. Start firefox and try to insert the message from the clipboard into the Google search field Actual results: No data is copied at all. Expected results: The warning message is supposed to be copied into the search field.
Component: Untriaged → Serializers
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: untriaged → dom-to-text
In the X clipboard model when you copy the running application owns the data that was copied. A promise to produce the data is placed on the clipboard, but the data is not generated until you try to paste. And if the app that made the promise is quit, the data can no longer be produced, of course. We could try to actually push the data to the clipboard as we quit, if X allows that...
Component: Serializers → Widget: Gtk
QA Contact: dom-to-text → gtk
For regular shutdown, this was addressed in bug 311340. I wonder whether quit-application is dispatched in this situation.
Severity: normal → S3
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