It would be cool if mozilla would strip newlines (but not spaces) from urls being pasted into the location bar. The idea behind this is that if you're pasting something with newlines into the location bar, most likely it's a long URL that got split accidentally, for example: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi? bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bu g_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&email1=&emailtype1=subst ring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&bugidtype =include&bug_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&shor t_desc=url&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_fil e_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=sub string&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&field0-0-0=short_desc&type0-0- 0=substring&value0-0-0=paste&newqueryname=&order=bugs.resolution%2C%20desc%2C% 20bugs.bug_id One problem with this is that it doesn't distinguish between newlines and spaces in the original text, but in most cases the "real" whitespace in the url has already been escaped.

over to editor for a look

I don't think this is an editor issue. The editor shouldn't blindly strip characters. If the urlbar wants to have newlines stripped, it should do that. If I paste the same text into a different textarea, I very well may want those lf/cr as they are. Back to Browser team.

OK, over to XPToolkit for a look.

Same argument applies doubly to XPToolkit. We can't have the clipboard code deciding what data to strip out for each destination. Location bar is XPApps, changing component, reassigning.

Good idea. For the future ...

nominating for helpwanted in case someone wants to do this before Future

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23485 ***

Verified dupe.