DDE Bug Within The Address Bar
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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.
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Project Details
The Bugzilla report has information on how to reproduce this bug, therefore here is a rehash of it fo easy accessability:
- 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.
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.
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The Bugzilla Report is available here Here.
