1773876 - link to youtube video is not always copied to clipboard

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: Web Compatibility, defect)

Description

[lvm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13

Steps to reproduce:

Consider the following scenario:

1. open a list of youtube videos e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedSportsCar/videos
2. right-click in the lower half of video preview picture. Dotted selection box appears around the picture, selecting "Copy link location" from context menu copies video URL to clipboard
3. right-click close to the top of a video picture. Selection box around the picture doesn't appear, selecting "Copy link location" from context menu does NOT change clipboard contents - this is the main issue. Selecting "Open link in a new tab" works on both occasions, so I am definitely clicking on a hyperlink and so it should be copied on both occasions too.

This is not 100% reproducible: sometimes, usually the first time, clicking on the top works just like clicking on the bottom, if it happens, try again with another video.

Comment 1

[lvm]

Why did it format the numbered list like this? Because of leading spaces maybe? Anyhow, here it is again in a more readable form (hopefully)

1. open a list of youtube videos e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedSportsCar/videos
2. right-click in the lower half of video preview picture. Dotted selection box appears around the picture, selecting "Copy link location" from context menu copies video URL to clipboard
3. right-click close to the top of a video picture. Selection box around the picture doesn't appear, selecting "Copy link location" from context menu does NOT change clipboard contents - this is the main issue. Selecting "Open link in a new tab" works on both occasions, so I am definitely clicking on a hyperlink and so it should be copied on both occasions too.