894412 - Text selected from Gmail is removed from clipboard after Firefox restart

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 888900

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bogdan Maris [:bogdan_maris], Release Desktop QA]

Reproducible on Firefox 23 beta 6 (BuildID: 20130715155216)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0
Reproducible on the latest Aurora (BuildID: 20130716004006).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130716 Firefox/24.0
Reproducible on the latest Nightly (BuildID: 20130716030202): 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130716 Firefox/25.0

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Open Gmail, Login and open a received email.
3. Copy some text from the email.
4. Restart Firefox. (Shift+F2, type restart and press enter).
5. Paste the copied text in the URL bar or in another application.

Expected results: 
The text is successfully copied.

Actual results:
The copied text cannot be copied. 

Notes:
1. This is reproducible only on Windows OS.
2. This issue is a Firefox regression - the regression range will be posted here by Wednesday, 07/17.

Comment 1

[Anthony Hughes (:ashughes) [QA]]

If this is a regression between Firefox 23b6 and 23b5 then bug 883554 is likely the cause.

Comment 2

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

dupe of bug 888900?

Comment 3

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

the patch in bug 888900 fixes the problem, hence duping...

try build::
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/[e-mail]-9dc98f6f331b/try-win32/

Comment 4

[Anthony Hughes (:ashughes) [QA]]

Dropping *wanted keywords since this has been duped and resolved. Please add verifyme to bug 888900 when this lands on central/aurora/beta so we can verify this is fixed.