Comment 0 for bug 260941

Binary package hint: pidgin

When I want to send a URL to a friend I like to double click in the address bar of Firefox and it highlights the entire URL and then I can drag it to the pidgin window and drop it in the send box. However, what actually happens is when I drag the URL it pastes it twice.

Example of what you'll see in the send box after dropping:

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1568171329http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1568171329

What it should be:

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1568171329

If I highlight the URL by any other means and don't drag it but instead right-click and Copy, then go to Pidgin and right-click and Paste, then it works properly.

Pidgin 2.4.1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1

Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (buildd@king) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008

 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 24 16:01:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ath_hal
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64