1902004 - chatgpt.com - No text copied in input field

Status: NEW

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

Description

[railioaie]

Environment:
Operating System: Windows 10
Firefox version: Firefox Nightly 129.0a1 (2024-06-11) / Firefox Release 127.0

Preconditions:
Clean profile

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate on https://chatgpt.com/
2. Ask something
3. After ChatGPT responds, hover the mouse over the text you sent and a pencil mark will appear
4. Click the pencil mark
5. Select the text and copy
6. Paste the selected text in the input field
7. Observe the page

Expected Behavior:
The text should be copied in input field

Actual Behavior:
No text copied in input field

Notes:

• Reproduces regardless of the status of ETP
• Reproduces in Firefox Nightly, Firefox Release
• Does not reproduce in Chrome

Comment 1

[railioaie]

Attachment: 12.06.2024_15.38.14_REC.mp4

Comment 2

[Ksenia Berezina [:ksenia]]

The problem here is that window.getSelection().toString() returns an empty string, only in Firefox:

  e.preventDefault();
  const n = window.getSelection();
  if (n && n.rangeCount > 0) {
    const a = n.getRangeAt(0).cloneContents();
    t(a);
    const o = document.createElement('div');
    o.appendChild(a);
    const s = o.innerHTML;
    e.clipboardData.setData('text/html', s),
    e.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', n.toString())
  }

This depends on bug85686 (and related bug1527627)

Comment 3

[mike.clark.8192]

Ksenia Berezina wrote:

The problem here is that window.getSelection().toString() returns an empty string, only in Firefox

I stepped through the current ChatGPT minified JS in the Firefox debugger and verified that this is still the case as of time of this writing.

I also wrote an Unlicense'd userscript workaround that targets chatgpt.com. The userscript is on greasyfork.org. I'm not going to link to it because I don't think the code is relevant to the proposed fix path that runs via bug85686 and I don't want to come off as self-promoting or fishing. However, it's easy enough to find on the site as it is listed publicly.