855726 - Copy actions are broken o HTML5 videos

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130326150557

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://youtube.com/html5 and enable the HTML5 demo.
2. Copy some text from anywhere.
2. Go back to YouTube, play a video of your choice, right click on it and select "Copy Video URL".
3. Open a new tab and paste the copied URL.

Expected results:
The copied URL is pasted in the new tab.

Actual results:
Nothing is pasted in the URL bar (not even what was copied in step 2). The same behavior is encountered also for the other copy options: "Copy video URL at current time", "Copy embed HTML" and "Copy debug info".

Note:
The issue is not reproducible on the latest Nightly and on the latest Aurora.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130328 Firefox/22.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130328 Firefox/21.0

Comment 1

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

This is also reproducible also on Firefox 19.0.2. Is there any chance that this gets fixed on Firefox 20? Should I keep working on the regression range?

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

This is almost certainly not an issue that would cause a fix to be uplifted to FF 20 before release or cause a chemspill.

Comment 3

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

However, we should probably note it as a known issue.

Comment 4

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Not worth tracking, still considering a relnote.

Comment 5

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

The issue is also reproducible on Firefox 12. On the previous Firefox versions < than 12 the selection in the copy dialog was not done and was impossible to do any copy actions.

The issue was fixed in Firefox 21.0a1:
Last bad nightly: 2013-01-24
First good nightly: 2013-01-25
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=98ea4d294369&tochange=a207f33adc1a

Comment 6

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

"Copy Video URL" doesn't work in Chrome either. I'd guess this is a bug in YouTube's code.

Comment 7

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #6)
> "Copy Video URL" doesn't work in Chrome either. I'd guess this is a bug in
> YouTube's code.

Copying the video URL works for me in Chrome 26.0.1410.43 m.

Comment 8

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

Indeed "Copy Video URL" does now work in Chrome. It also now works for me in [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130402 Firefox/23.0].

I guess YouTube fixed their bug.