pasting from crlf file into firefox textarea results in crlfcrlf line endings

[MarkJ]

Binary package hint: firefox

I downloaded a text file with CRLF line endings. Pasted it from gedit/geany (the result is the same) into a firefox textarea (in my case the textarea was at http://pinyintools.zedwood.com/tojavascript ). When you push submit you can see the lines are delimited with \r\n\r\n (crlfcrlf instead of crlf). To confirm it wasn't the server that was doing anything funny I used the firefox tamperdata plug-in and captured the outgoing HTTP POST and looked at it, and it definitely had crlfcrlf. I'll upload a screenshot of that too in a sec.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 2 10:24:16 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.11+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[MarkJ (marker)]

Screenshot of newlines in geany.

[MarkJ (marker)]

Screenshot of tamperdata plugin, note %0D is \r (CR) and %0A is \n (LF).

[MarkJ (marker)]

Screenshot of the json_encode of the text after the post. Notice it has \r\n\r\n instead of just \r\n

[MarkJ (marker)]

Pasting into google chrome doesn't insert CRLFs like firefox does, so is the fix to use chrome? :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Peter Alderson (ubuntu-beyondboothambar)]

I have exactly the same problem - and the same solution: use Chrome instead of Firefox!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. This bug was reported some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Does anyone still see a problem related to the one that was reported when using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]