1869308 - Can't paste using the context menu or edit menu on Google Docs

Status: NEW

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Even after adding support for navigator.clipboard.readText and navigator.clipboard.read Google Docs still doesn't support pasting using the custom context menu.

STR:

• Copy some text
• Go to https://docs.new
• Right click
• Click on "Paste"

Actual result:
A dialog with a message like the following opens:

These actions are unavailable using the Edit menus, but you can still use:

Expected result:
Text is pasted

Comment 1

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) | away [:hsinyi]]

Dear webcompat team,
clipbaord.read & readText() have been enabled in nightly and early beta. However, this issue is still there. Can you help us investigate this a bit further and potentially will have to reach out to gsuite team to change their code accordingly? Thank you.

Comment 2

[Sky Schubert [:skyschub]]

Redirecting to Ksenia as she has a bit more bandwidth at the moment. :)

Comment 3

[Ksenia Berezina [:ksenia]]

I did some diagnosis in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1640222#c20. To summarize, Google Docs is using document.execCommand('paste') + content_capabilities property in a built-in extension allowing execCommand to run and paste from webcontent.

Comment 5

[16tdmabsi]

👁️

Comment 6

[16tdmabsi]

I can't ask about task plans, but I will ask about them. Could you please clarify what the P2 priority means? I don't want this to go away, one of the most annoying bugs...

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Priorities are described here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/UserGuide/BugFields#priority
P2=Fix in the next release cycle or the following (nightly + 1 or nightly + 2)

Comment 8

[James Graham [:jgraham]]

Note that that isn't quite how we are using priorities in the Web Compatibility component. Very roughly speaking this is a P2 because the impact is breaking a feature rather than actually making the site unusable. But we are aware that this is significantly annoying, and are actively looking at options to work around what is essentially a site bug.

Comment 9

[16tdmabsi]

OK, cool, thank you ❤️

Comment 10

[16tdmabsi]

Are we cool yet?

Comment 11

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I can still reproduce this. I suspect this is related to bug 1806457 / bug 1640222 which are about related copypaste issues on Google Workspace (GSuite) products, and that means that (like those ones) this is probably dependent on bug 1956304.

We've got an existing discussion thread about bug 1806457 and related bugs with some folks who work on Google Drive/Docs; I'll add a mention of this bug in that thread and move this from contact-ready to contact-in-progress.

Comment 12

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot showing the "These actions are unavailable" UI in Google Docs (which appears when you try to paste using context or edit menu)

Comment 13

[16tdmabsi]

Glad to see contact is in progress.
Thank you for making Firefox more user-friendly :)

Comment 14

[Edgar Chen [:edgar] (OOO 08/03 ~ 08/07)]

Now we support document.execCommand("paste") (bug 1998195), and Google is taking another look at this.