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This is a great post and a bit inspiring so thanks for writing it up. There is a bug in FF on Mac (maybe others too) that popped up in the last 2 years or so that is super niche but I've been too intimidated to try to file a report. Sometimes I do a quick CMD + L (to focus and highlight the address (Location) bar contents), CMD + V, CMD + A, CMD + C to copy text without formatting (or just remove newlines from a PDF. It usually works great but sometimes it copies the URL of the page you're on that was previously in the address bar. Not even sure what I'd search for in the issue tracker but it feels almost like a spacebar warmer (https://xkcd.com/1172/) type bug.

Yesterday I wrote about fixing M4B audiobook support on Jellyfin iOS/safari without writing any code [0]. When describing the process to my girlfriend I realized it was a kind of skill to know how to navigate a new community and their various communication platforms (GH, Forums, Matrix, socials) and post the right things.

[0] https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-str...




For what it's worth I do the exact same thing (although not on Mac so I haven't encountered this bug), so not too niche I suppose!


I tested it in a bit more and realize that for me it always happens with PDFs (maybe only PDFs) if I select multiple lines.

Out of curiosity if you go to https://legacy.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/contribut..., select the top two lines, and do the CTRL L V A C taps does it copy the URL or the text?

Also found a related bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1770723


This bug was originally on MacOS but now reported for all platforms. So I guess this is my issue to follow :)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1817233

Who knows maybe one day I'll look into fixing it. Until then I guess I'll just keep using my bash script with raycast that removes newlines and then pastes.




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