895004 - trim-on-paste to the URL bar

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Avinash [:hardfire]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.93 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Copy ' http://mozilla.org' and paste it to the URL bar 

Note :I am running firefox Nightly 25.0a1 and tried on Stable Firefox 22 


Actual results:

It pasted ' http://mozilla.org'


Expected results:

It should have pasted 'http://mozilla.org'

Note : It eventually points to the right URL but since it is not trimmed on paste it is not clear, thus had to manually remove trailing spaces from the front.

Comment 1

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Hi Avinash, thanks for the bug report! This looks like it may be a duplicate of bug 764841.  

When I paste a leading space into the url bar, as in your example, it is trimmed when I hit return, and I end up at the right page. 

What do you find not clear, or confusing?

Comment 2

[Avinash [:hardfire]]

Yes, it is trimmed after return, but that's not the best User Experience. It is still not clear that if it would go to the right page or do a search of the url. So we end up removing the trailing spaces manually and then hit return.
If the trailing spaces are removed on paste ( I saw this happen on chrome, and it just feels right ), there would be no confusion at all.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.