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- Buttercup, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22if its a bug, its a bug. bugs need to be fixed. its not bitching if it results in a better product.
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -6/+174 years on bugzilla....hence the point of the blog in the first place. you're not too bright are you?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133439 - Edogz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This happens to me every day. It is extremely annoying, somebody really needs to do something. If I copy something, and then close firefox, it's gone from my clipboard... very annoying.
- ludde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I can REPRODUCE the bug with these steps:
Open up a new firefox process.
Go to http://digg.com
Select "create a small home". Ctrl-C
Go to Address field (eveything should get selected)
Hit Ctrl-V, it pastes
Hit Ctrl-Z. Undo.
Hit ctrl-A. Select all
Hit Ctrl-C, nothing gets copied
Hit Ctrl-V, nothing gets inserted
Hit Ctrl-V, nothing gets inserted again
Release Ctrl between every press. - MissionSix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I happens to me quite often. Normally I just think i'm not pressing C hard enough on my keyboard, but now i'm convinced its a bug.
- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9So what if some problem or any problem exist with Linux. At least I don't have to deal with spywre. Right? Lets settle and not demand better. Right?
No.
Don't settle. Set your standards high. - disgruntled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8+digg because its happened to me on a LOT of different installs.
it seems to only happen when I use the r-click menu and happens more frequently when i have any of the cuteicons extentions installed - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Me too. Windows XP SP2, been running firefox since 0.8, always had this problem.
- mzhao, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I haven't experienced this before. The closest I've gotten is if I selected the address bar but switched Firefox's focus from that to another part of the window. Seems that Firefox/XUL can continue to flash a cursor or keep text highlighted in blue without the field being in focus.
- d0zy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6i never thought about it before, but i have experienced it,
copy paste wont work, but the second try almost always did
hmmm.... - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Guess you failed to notice him say that bugzilla is full of similar reports. So obviously not a problem just on his computer.
- iTony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5All this time I thought the keys on my old laptop sucked and it didn't register.
- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have only seen this problem (and too frequent for my taste) in Linux.
- kevin.gc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This happens to me sometimes. (I've only noticed it recently though.)
- kingamoon, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14"Install Linux or something"
what are you? an idiot? He said this problem can occur on any of the supported OS. GGOSH !!! IDIOT !!! - steubens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've had this happen consistently on a pentium class 200mhz machine here, and often, when I hit ctrl c, and immediately hit alt tab and paste in another application, it often, VERY OFTEN, pastes the contents that were in the clipboard before I supposedly copied the url bar contents to the clipboard.
This leads me to believe its a timing issue, or with the way the ui def in chrome. The entire UI is a dom tree, written against a platform called XUL, anyways, the accelerator is associated with the address bar just like an accesskey on a control on a web page, and the events are dispatched via the javascript engine, somewhere in the middle that added latency breaks the expected behaviour, and it is exhibited more often on slower machines.
Any fix would be a huge hack for something that should be fixed, but is more of a cosmetic type issue, and at the cost of flexibility in chrome, which is the magic behind all the magic that is firefox, and all its extensions.
Just my 2 cents.
(Was going to post something to this effect on their bugzilla but f. if I'm going to sign up, and they're probably reading here :) - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Sometimes I think that the Mozilla devs are more interested in new features than on a stable build."
And there would be a whole lot of pissed off Mozilla developers out there to hear you say that. The whole point of phases of development like "Feature Freeze" are to find bugs and /not/ add any new features. They're trying the best they can to make a good product, and I can tell you from experience, that something like Firefox is very, very hard to pull off; it's gotta work well across hundreds of thousands of platform configurations, software items, etc, and that's not easy to pull off for any team.
"Forgive the French, but somebody's gotta have the balls to either fix the problem or close the bug as "wont fix". "
Why would they deem a bug they can't confirm/deny as "WONTFIX"? I'd be willing to fix the bug if anyone could give me a reproducable setup in which the bug occurs. But seeing as nobody has yet been able to reproduce this bug on command, it seems that there's nothing much anyone can do but code-and-pray, and when you're working with something as complex as Firefox, code-and-pray just won't fly.
Like I said earlier, if anyone, anyone can come to me with a way to foolproofly reproduce this bug, myself and a hundred other Mozilla volunteers would look at it. Seeing as nobody can do that, there's simply nothing more we can do, it's out of our hands... - hiredgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The website is down. What's the bug that they're talking about?
- slodaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This bug has been driving me nuts since I started using FF. I frequently copy URL's from the toolbar, and text from webpages and try to paste them into IM or email clients. It works may 1/3 of the time.
To get around it, I have to reopen the page with IE, and try again.
MOZILLA FIX THIS!!! - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It happens to me and I do not use word.
- noelsusman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Says who? And without whining about a product, certain bugs/features would never be fixed/added. Customer whining is the basis for almost all software updates
- breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I'm a Safari user, but I want every browser to be as good as possible to keep up the competition. Digg.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I can't replicate it either (and I've got several historical versions of Seamonkey/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox installed).
If someone figures out how to replicate it, will they post? If it really is a bug and not a system configuration conflict/spyware zapping your clipboard, I'd really like to get to the bottom of it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Diggstroyed
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well then digg this to the homepage and hopefully the digg effect will have a positive effect in relation to Firefox development!
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmm, the same thing happens to me occasionally, but I just restart and I'm alright.
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's a BUG!?!?! I thought I was just going insane! *phew*. That's a releif.
I really when I need to copy/paste a URL or something when I already have five pages of code in the clipboard, copy the url (i think) and slam-paste-return into IRC.
They don't get a URL, they get a head of bad code. - dougr33d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The closest I have gotten to this is when I am using someone's Windows machine and expect to be able to highlight a URL and then middle-button-click to paste it somewhere like I can on my Linux boxen. Hardly a FF error though. Not sure if it qualifies as PEBKAC or just Windows missing out on what I think is a really, really useful feature.
- Jamezes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It happened to me about an hour ago when I was copying a megaupload link! It doesn't happen very often though and it's something I can live with. (Although fixing it would be better ;)
I'm using 1.5.0.1 - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have seen this bug in Mozilla v1.7.12. It's rare and does happen.
- Inphormatika, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Not to flame or anything, but 20 reports over 4 years isn't much, considering that there have been over 150,000,000 downloads. They're probably looking for bugs reported by more than 50,000 people or something.
And, this has happened to me before, but a simple quit and restart fixes it. I'd rather have them work on the memory leakage and WMP issues. - xtracto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dugg, I have experienced this bug, Indeed I think it sucks that the bug is 4 years old, that shows why it may be better to have closed source software (as there is people PAYED to find and fix the small annoying bugs).
I have come to another bug in Fx which is in the address bar and search bar, sometimes I just click there to put the cursor and start writing and somehow the text is written in reverse order, that way if I type http: i end with :ptth ?? happens rarely but I sure hate it. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@geminitojanus: no, it's not spyware (none on my systems) or system conflict, or a broken keyboard. I have experienced this very issue at 2 different computers, with 2 different installs. The first times it happened to me I did think I just pressed a wrong key, etc. But since I do a lot of heavy editing, a bad key, or me pressing wrong buttons would have shown up more often in the editor I use.
So IMO: this issue is real, and happens rarely. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3me also. thought it was just me..
- OropheR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Its not a problem with firefox itself. It affects firefox. I had the same issue with internet explorer. I could not copy-paste an info from my desktop to a database running in internet explorer that i could access via remote connection. Sometimes it was working, sometimes not. I had to close my remote access, copy, then reopen my access and paste. it was the only work around I came with. I only was affected by this issue.
- unionjacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just switched to this Firefox and I love it, but what the ***** is wrong with the copy paste function. In internet Explorer I want to copy an image off a web page I just select the image by right clicking and hit copy. Or I can highlight it and press ctrl+c on my keyboard.
Now with this image in my clipboard I can now paste it into another IE window such as Yahoo email. I now have that image inside my email.
I can't do this in Firefox. It will paste text but it won't paste an image that I have copied. If I open up an IE window I can sometimes paste from IE to Firefox but not all images only certain images. Weird. Yet using IE I can copy and paste images at will from one window to another. Can't do that in Firefox.
Why is no one else is figuring out how to do this? It's simple. Copy paste image from one Firefox window to another inside my email application yahoo email. That's all I want to do. Has anyone figured out how to do this? - Hale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had this problem when I first started using firefox.. but since I've had AutoCopy running it hasn't come back. same issue happens ALL THE TIME for me in AIM, tho (across many multiple versions on different hardware setups).
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have had this happen to me a few times but not that often. I always tap CTRL C a few times just to make sure the system knows I am copying anyway.
- brickbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had this error and I continue to get it every once in a while. It is a real pain in the ass because you don't know when copy/paste worked and when it didn't.
- hoowahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know I noticed that i can copy/paste when Im not using a tab. If I spawn multiple tabs those other tabs dont work but the original does sometimes. Maybe It was a coincidence.
- TigerX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For those who care, this bug has been fixed and the new code will appear in Firefox 2.0.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133439 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'm glad to know it's Firefox that's the problem, it's the most annoying thing ever. Sometimes it's copying, sometimes just pasting, I just press it a bunch and eventually it works but it's not fun. And "a simple quit and restart" is not my idea of a simple workaround when I have 10 tabs open.
By the way, I thought open source was great because of the community and the responsiveness to problems, blah blah blah. All I see here is hostility and "it's only 1% of users" type of stuff, or people reporting it "inaccurate" because they haven't had it happen to them. That's a recipe for continued improvement alright.
So I'm wondering what the real appeal of open source is, is it just the feelings of superiority and self-congratulation? I'd rather have copy/paste and some megabytes freed up. - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Another annoying little bug that hasn't been fixed in multiple versions (and on multiple machines with different setups/OS) is the annoying apostrophe bug. I'll be entering text into a text field and every once in a while it'll open "find" at the bottom while I'm typing after I hit an apostrophe. Only way to make it stop is to close the browser and re-start it. Not a huge annoyance, but it's happened on occasion after I've already typed a ton of text. I searched for it and I'm not alone.
And the people here recommending we should run virus scans, remove "spyware" and maybe run things like scandisk and defrag to solve this problem should be reminded of something...
It's a FIREFOX BUG, not a problem with our computers. Yeah, a lot of people blame their own stupidity on software bugs, but this isn't one of those times.
That said, I still adore Firefox and wouldn't use IE or anything else again if they paid me. - 1337d00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does this problem occur with firefox on osx too? I think I remember somthing like this
- dwbell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1can't reproduce with FF 1.5.0.1 on Suse 10.0
- lasmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This article is funny cause I was sure the number one problem with firefox was the MEMORY LEAK. I don't think i've ever really had a problem with copy & paste.
- jrkaisersr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yes, I've experienced this problem, and it's VERY annoying......
- ntnwwnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anybody else getting a 404 error?
- ntnwwnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly what I was about to say. Personally, I don't see how people can live without AutoCopy installed. It just makes things so much easier.
- huper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For those who are curious - The bug has been fixed.. or at least it will be. The fix is being checked in, and for those curious enough you can patch it yourself.
Take a look at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133439
Awesome work by the digg community.
-huper -
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