Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 105017
Pasting HTML <table> hangs up
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:44:29 UTC
When pasting a HTML <table> from a FireFox window into a Calc document the program hangs up and does not finish. The problem existed already with the version 3.0. Sometimes the pasting process finished after a very long time but the resulting document could not be scrolled. Each scrolling took an enormous time. With the version 2.x the time of pasting a HTML <table> was already long but finished at least. Example: From the Tiobe Index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html I select the first main table, I make a Ctl-C and in a fresh new oocalc document a Ctl-V And the programm hangs up.
Copying from the mentioned URL with Seamonkey on WinXP makes OOo hang here too. The Webpage does not contain a table, but the content is provided dynamically via script. If I try to copy the table from that webpage with Opera, then OOo gets no content at all. Workaround: Save the Webpage to a local destination, open it from there with your browser and copy the content from then.
Thank you for the workaround. I did not try because I thought it could not make any difference. I've noticed only this morning that the content of the page was dynamic.