Nicolas Barbulesco Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

Mac OS X 10.6.8, Firefox Nightly.

I start Firefox' profile manager, with the command line and -p 
In the profile manager, I choose to create a new profile. 
In Choose Folder… → New Folder, I can enter the wanted name. 
In the clipboard, I have a little text. 
I press Apple V. 

* Expected result : * 
This pastes the text. 

* Actual result : * 
This does not paste the text.

By right-clicking in the field, pasting works.

Thank you for fixing this little bug.

Nicolas

	Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

This is an old bug -- even FF 30 has it.

But, though I use the Profile Manager all the time, I've never noticed it before, because whenever I create a new profile I do the following:

1) In the Profile Manager choose Create Profile and press Continue.
2) Press cmd-v to paste selected text into the box under "Enter new profile name".

So this bug has two easy workarounds -- this one and the one you mentioned.

The bug will probably be quite difficult to fix, since it happens in a native filepicker (one provided by the OS).  So I'm afraid it will be a while before we get to this bug.

	Nicolas Barbulesco Reporter
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

(In reply to Steven Michaud from comment #1)

> This is an old bug -- even FF 30 has it.
> 
> But, though I use the Profile Manager all the time, I've never noticed it
> before, because whenever I create a new profile I do the following:
> 
> 1) In the Profile Manager choose Create Profile and press Continue.
> 2) Press cmd-v to paste selected text into the box under "Enter new profile
> name".

But suppose that I really want to create a new folder. Suppose that I want to create a new folder Firefox-Profiles-Νικος and to have my new profile folder inside it: Firefox-Profiles-Νικος/Firefox-Profile-Νικος-α. 
Then this workaround does not work. And I really want to paste, not type, because of the greek characters!

	Nicolas Barbulesco Reporter
	Comment 3 • 9 years ago

(In reply to Steven Michaud from comment #1)

> The bug will probably be quite difficult to fix, since it happens in a
> native filepicker (one provided by the OS).

In the same Firefox, I bring a dialog "Save as...", and I click "New Folder". Here, pressing Apple V pastes.

	Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)
	Comment 4 • 9 years ago

My point is that, because the filepicker is a native dialog, we have no direct control over it.  To fix this bug we'll have to find a workaround ... which is quite difficult.

I don't deny this bug is annoying.  But you do have a workaround (using right-click then paste).  And this bug isn't particularly urgent, and our resources are very limited.