1739793 - Reddit - Copying a text with the links is broken

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[dreamer8]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

When copying a text with the links from another reddit post/tab to a new topic/post, it's pasted correctly, with the links.

When copying text with links from another reddit post to a new post/comment/reply to existing topic, it's broken, text is pasted without links and the text wrap is broken too.

To reproduce copy the first program (FreeCommander) with description from this post and paste it as reply to any topic (e.g. this post).

Post link: https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/gkoawu/what_utility_software_is_a_must_for_new_pcs/g5zox1u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I have the problems also when copying text with links to a post with some text, some text is lost completely - I'll create a new topic if I find the exact steps to reproduce.

This bug is few months old, it was working good before. I didn't report it earlier, because other bugs I reported few years ago were not fixed until now.

Workaround is to fix the text and add links manually, or use the markdown mode, but it's not easy to use, nor intuitive.

It works good in Chrome.

Actual results:

Copying a text with the links is broken.

Expected results:

Link to original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/qeax38/copying_a_text_with_the_links_is_broken/

Firefox 94.0.1 (64-bit), Windows 10 21H1 64-bit.

Comment 1

[dreamer8]

Attachment: fgzkel8uv8v71.webp Copied text with the links

Comment 2

[dreamer8]

Attachment: u4g4y89lv8v71.webp Result after pasting the text is without the links and the text wrap is broken too

Comment 3

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Managed to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 x64, macOS 11.6 and on Ubuntu 20.04 I tried on Firefox Nightly 96.0a1, Firefox 95.0b4 and on Firefox 94.0.1.
I also managed to reproduce this problem on Chrome, Edge and on Safari.

Not sure if this component is the right one, please feel free to change it if you thing otherwise.