When right clicking in address bar, cut/copy/delete are greyed out

[Ruben Verweij]

I have encountered this problem in Ubuntu 8.10 as well as in Ubuntu 9.10 Testing (both are FF 3.0.12). When you click with your right mouse button in the address bar, the text is selected and the context menu shows up. So far, so good. However, in the context menu the options cut/copy/delete are disabled. If you right click for a second time in the address bar, the options are enabled as they should be.

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070810 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070810 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.0.12

I have encountered this problem in Ubuntu 8.10 as well as in Ubuntu 9.10 Testing (both are FF 3.0.12). When you click with your right mouse button in the address bar, the text is selected and the context menu shows up. So far, so good. However, in the context menu the options cut/copy/delete are disabled. If you right click for a second time in the address bar, the options are enabled as they should be.
See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/408044.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Right click in address bar.
2.Copy/cut/delete are greyed out.
3.Click another time to enable them.
Actual Results:
Copy/cut/delete are greyed out.

Expected Results:
Copy/cut/delete are enabled

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Are you sure that you have text selected when you right click in the address bar? When I right click, I have no text selected and the options are disabled. As soon as text is selected the options are enabled.

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

When I right click on the address bar, all text is automatically
selected. (thanks to browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = true)
Thus, the expected behaviour is to be able to copy/cut/delete the text, too.

[Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing (mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing)]

User forgot to mention that this setting is enabled:
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = true

I have confirmed this with a new profile on Firefox 3.0.12 and with my normal profile on Firefox 3.5.1.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I can confirm this on Firefox 3.0.12 and Firefox 3.5.1 with browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = true.

[Elmar-ludwig (elmar-ludwig)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 468221, but I'm hesitant to mark this as a duplicate because that bug is very confusing to read (the reporter failed to mention the location bar and "clickSelectsAll = true" at first, only bug 468221 comment #13 is sufficently clear). Based on the report in bug 468221 this looks to be cross platform.

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

I believe this is a papercut, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

While this looks like a papercut, it mostly likely isn't an easy fix. This is also an edge case as it only applies in the URL bar and not in the browser itself.

For further info about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Adding tracking task for firefox source (current 3.6) based on bug 579799

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

I have confirmed the bug under FF 3.6.3 under Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).
This is the bug that I reported on Launchpad (for FF 3.6):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/579799

Kind regards,
Miro

[B.J. Herbison (bj-herbison)]

This issue no longer occurs in Firefox 17. I don't know if the browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll enabled configuration parameter is still used, but it has no effect on the pop-up menu.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Seems fixed now.