951716 - Pasting text from a clipboard into a span element marked contentEditable is not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 783846

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Text Selection, defect)

Description

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Site: http://etherpad.mozilla.org/
Pasting text from a clipboard in the textarea is not working 

:: Steps To Reproduce

1. Go to any webpage
2. select text, Copy
3. Open a new on http://etherpad.mozilla.org/
4. Try to Paste the text

:: Expected Result

To have a menu for pasting the text in the clipboard

:: Actual Result

The carets for selection appear and a menu for copying only is available.

:: Additional Information

Software Version: 18
Device Information: Android Samsung
Reporter's User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

Comment 1

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

(When going to the textarea of Google, it is working).
So I guess the issue is specific to Etherpad and Firefox Android.

When using UCWeb, or Opera it is working.

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

What version of Firefox for Android are you using? Do you know if this is a regression?

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

"Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0"
I don't know if it's a regression. As I haven't used any other versions.

Comment 4

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

After I select some text from my favorite arstechnica, and I go to the new MoPad, I can't even tap into the text and receive a caret to trigger the actionbar to open.

If I longtap a word to start-a-selection-open-the-actionbar, then I see options for Select, Copy, Share, and Search, but (as stated) no paste option.

Comment 5

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Apparently, the text in the left panel of the MoPad is enclosed in an HTMLSpanElement that's not being recognized as focused in browser.js

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js?mark=4407-4414,#4407

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #3)
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0"
> I don't know if it's a regression. As I haven't used any other versions.

Fx18? Are you using this version by choice?

I'm not saying that this bug is fixed in the latest release, but a lot of other bugs are.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #6)
> Fx18? Are you using this version by choice?

I didn't choose or thought I had to choose. It's the version of Firefox which was installed on the device when it has been given to me for testing Web Compat issues. Let me try to dig info about this device. I know it's a Samsung. It runs Android 2.3.5. Ah… it seems it is a GT-I9100 GINGERBREAD.

I'm testing over wifi. No sim card.

Comment 8

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #7)
> (In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #6)
> > Fx18? Are you using this version by choice?
> 
> I didn't choose or thought I had to choose. It's the version of Firefox
> which was installed on the device when it has been given to me for testing
> Web Compat issues. Let me try to dig info about this device. I know it's a
> Samsung. It runs Android 2.3.5. Ah… it seems it is a GT-I9100 GINGERBREAD.

As long as the device has the Google Play Store application on it, you should be getting updates. These might not be automatic though. You might need to go into the Play Store application and manually approve the update. The current release version is Fx26.

Comment 9

[Elbart]

Attachment: Screenshot_2014-05-28-10-58-07.png

Is this the same bug which also prohibits pasting text into an empty searchbar on google.com?

When typing a few characters and selecting them in the searchbar, "Paste" is offered, though.

Firefox 29, Nightly 05-27

Comment 10

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Confirmed on Firefox 31 (beta) for android on a plain vanilla document:

data:text/html,<div contenteditable="true">hi</div>