1465767 - Cannot copy text from a HTML table

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[sim_draime]

Attachment: test.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180516032328

Steps to reproduce:

Prerequisite:
- Firefox 60.0.1 installed on a Windows 10 PC
- Some text is already copied in the clipboard of the PC

Scenario:
1. Open the attached HTML page (test.html) with Firefox
2. Select one of the rows of the table with a mouse from the right to the left without releasing the mouse click until the cursor arrives between the checkbox and the "copy" column
3. Press CTRL+C
4. Open a text editor (e.g. notepad) and put the mouse cursor in the text field
5. Press CTRL+V


Actual results:

- It's the previous copied text that is pasted in the text editor.
- The last text copied from the table in Firefox is not pasted in the text editor.

Note: The issue depends on where you release the mouse click 


Expected results:

The text copied from the table in Firefox is pasted in the text editor

Comment 1

[laszlo.bialis]

Hi! 

I've managed to reproduce the issue described above, both on Release 60.0.1 Build ID: 20180516032328 as on Nightly 62.0a1 Build ID: 20180604220149.

Comment 2

[sim_draime]

Hi!

Any news on this one?

Thanks

Comment 3

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

Couldn't reproduce the issue with current Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.

Comment 4

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

I couldn't reproduce the issue on both Firefox release 75 and the current nightly 77.0a1, on win10.

Comment 5

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

sim_draime: can you still reproduce the issue? Otherwise I'll close the ticket.

Comment 6

[sim_draime]

Hi mbrodesser

I tried with Firefox 75.0 and I can't reproduce the issue. It seems that it has been fixed, you can close the ticket.

Regards.

Comment 7

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

Thanks for checking.