762961 - preceding spaces at beginning of text string not being copied by FF13 and TB13

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 739537

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ModemGod]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601045813

Steps to reproduce:

I was attempting to copy a string of text which included several spaces at the beginning of said text string.

Example of type of text to be copied listed below:

     Line 1
     Line 2
     Line 3

BugID 70549, while old, appears to describe this exact misbehavior of both FF13 and TB13.


Actual results:

When pasting the text either into a web form in Firefox 13, an email text box in Thunderbird 13, or into a Notepad window in Windows, it never pastes those preceding spaces of the text string.

Example of what would be pasted into any app:

Line 1
     Line 2
     Line 3


Expected results:

It should have included those spaces of indentation at the beginning of the text string in the copy operation from both Firefox 13 and Thunderbird 13.  This was working fine in Firefox 11 and Thunderbird 10 before I had upgraded both to version 13.  Therefore, I am not sure if this regressing bug had first appeared in version 12 or 13 of either Mozilla app.

Example of what should have been pasted into any app:

     Line 1
     Line 2
     Line 3

Comment 1

[ModemGod]

Per kbrosnan's suggestion, I had attempted to change the value of "layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word" from the default "true" to "false" with no success in restoring the previous correct behavior of copying preceding spaces in a text string.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

This was fixed in Firefox14 by Bug 739537