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== Project Name ==
DDE Bug Within The Address Bar

== Project Description ==

A bug was found and reported that concerns the copy and paste mechanism when pasting an address into a new instance of Firefox. Regular typing seems to be unaffected and works perfectly even though the Copy and Paste mechanism is at fault.

== Project Leader(s) ==

[[User:RealMarkP|Mark Paruzel]] <br/>
[[User:YiShen|Yi Shen]]

== Project Contributor(s) ==

== Project Details ==

The Bugzilla report has information on how to reproduce this bug, therefore here is a rehash of it fo easy accessability:<br/>
# start a new firefox profile and set your homepage to about:blank. Close firefox.
# copy some text to clipboard. that's not needed to trigger the bug, just makes following steps easier.
# Make sure you have a firefox icon on desktop.
# Start FF from desktop, press ctrl-v to check if you can paste to urlbar. If you can't (unlikely) you've reproduced. If you can, minimize this window.
# Start a new FF window by double-clicking desktop icon.
# Check if you can paste. If you can, close it and goto 5.

Important: don't make any unnecessary focus changes. It should take below 10
new windows to reproduce. If you've reached about 10 and it still works fine,
start over from point 4, I never failed at second try.<br/><br/>

The bug is mostlikely inside the Copy and Paste code that Firefox handles.

== Project News ==

* Oct 1, 2006
** Project Assigned.
* Oct 6, 2006
** An attempt was made to run Firefox with the Visual Studio Debugger.
* Oct 20, 2006
** Firefox has been run in debug mode and messages were tracked. At this point were not sure which message to track.
* Nov 8, 2006
** Firefox has been built in debug mode and currently runs using the visual studio debugger. We have narrowed down the culprit to a possible Clipboard related issue. WM_PASTE is definitely not the culprit, rather the bug seems to be somewhere in the mozilla/editor/ part of the tree.
* Nov 10, 2006
** The bug was Fixed. Please read the Bug report on bugzilla on the discussion that took place.

== Useful Links ==

The Bugzilla Report is available here [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220900 Here].