Note: other people on the internet have reported the same issue: On AskUbuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1338970/copy-paste-from- firefox-88-0-1-not-working-properly-on-ubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hip
On Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/myhfc5/copy_pasting_occasionally_breaking_on_ubuntu_2104/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1913775 Title: Copy from Firefox Wayland fails to be pasted anywhere else Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running Firefox 84.0.2 for Ubuntu Canonical-1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, on Wayland native Version 84.0.2 Build ID 20210105180113 Window Protocol wayland Desktop Environment gnome DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM: If I copy text from a web page and try to paste it into another Firefox page, the text is pasted correctly. If I copy text from a web page and try to paste it in [gedit, libreoffice, thunderbird, terminal, slack (electron)] nothing happens. The Gnome Clipboard extension stays empty when content is copied from Firefox Wayland. Pasting *from* another app *to* Firefox works fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1913775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
