2022547 - Copy Link to Highlight is disabled for certain selections

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Leo Tenenbaum [:ltenenbaum]]

Attachment: loremipsum.html

Steps to reproduce:

• Open attached file
• Select the first two sentences ("Lorem ... commodo consequat.") including the period at the end
• Right-click to open the context menu

Expected behavior:
The option for "Copy Link to Highlight" is available

Actual behavior:
The option for "Copy Link to Highlight" is grayed out and cannot be selected

Interestingly, this bug doesn't happen when you select just the first sentence.

Comment 1

[Leo Tenenbaum [:ltenenbaum]]

Attachment: Bug 2022547 - Fix "Copy Link to Highlight" for long selection ending in punctuation. r=jjaschke

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/c4449b13c372
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/a578150d5935
Fix "Copy Link to Highlight" for long selection ending in punctuation. r=jjaschke

Comment 3

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a578150d5935

Comment 4

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Reproducible on a 2026-03-11 Firefox Nightly build on Windows 10.

Verified as fixed on Firefox Nightly 151.0a1 and Firefox 150.0b1 on Windows 10, Ubuntu 22, macOS 15.