1801595 - Copy-paste not working for files in Ubuntu 22.04

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1699743

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

Description

[Stephan]

Attachment: clipboard_firefox.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download a random photo e.g. from Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/hMVlMBXaP_M)
2. Select the file and hit ctrl + c in Files/Nautilus
3. I go to the clipboard inspector (https://evercoder.github.io/clipboard-inspector/)
4. I hit ctrl + v
5. The image does not show up in the output (see screenshot)

Note:

• I tried the Snap version, flatpak, apt-get and the binary that can be downloaded from the website but no luck in any version
• I am using Wayland but it also didn't work in Xorg when I tried (with the apt-get version)
• E.g. in Brave it works as expected and contains the image data, unfortunately I can only attach one screenshot
• I posted this before in the forums if you need more information: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1397133

Actual results:

It only copies the file name

Expected results:

It should contain the image data

Comment 1

[Stephan]

Attachment: clipboard_brave.png

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Inspector' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Stephan]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte] from comment #2)

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Inspector' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Ah ... I don't know how to correct BugBot, but the issue is not related to the DevTools/Inspector.

Comment 5

[Stephan]

Thanks for quickly checking the bug!
Of course it's sad that it's still an open issue (makes using Figma in Firefox much less productive) but at least I know the reason now :)

Comment 6

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

No problem. Good to know that there is interest in this feature. If you download Beta you can flip a pref and it should work on Ubuntu. See bug 1699743 comment 9.

Comment 7

[Stephan]

(In reply to Tom Schuster [:evilpie] from comment #6)

No problem. Good to know that there is interest in this feature. If you download Beta you can flip a pref and it should work on Ubuntu. See bug 1699743 comment 9.

Yeah totally. I recently switched from Mac (using Brave) to Linux and there it was essential to my workflow.
I frequently used it in the browser for Whatsapp Web, Figma, Notion and Google Docs. Basically everywhere where adding files (mainly images) is a thing. Sometimes I obviously also used drag and drop, but ctrl-c is more comfortable when using the window/app switcher (alt + tab).