https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524323

Nate Graham <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Summary|Copy inside Firefox does    |Copy inside Firefox's
                   |not populate klipper        |private browsing mode does
                   |history                     |not populate klipper
                   |                            |history
           See Also|                            |https://bugs.kde.org/show_b
                   |                            |ug.cgi?id=508326
         Resolution|---                         |NOT A BUG
             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> ---
Ahhhhh, it all makes perfect sense now!

Yeah, when you copy something in private browsing mode, Firefox flags it with
the special MIME hint "x-kde-passwordManagerHint: secret".

You could argue this is an abuse of the MIME hint since the copied text is not
necessarily a password. But that's what KDE made available to prevent the
copied text from being added to the clipboard history, so that's what Firefox
used.

Thus, this is intentional from Firefox's perspective.

It would probably be clearer what's going on here if we made the clipboard
history tell you that a secret was just copied, but won't be added to the
clipboard. That's tracked with Bug 508326.

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