[tbb-bugs] #32166 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor Browser (and Firefox) clobber my clipboard when I return to the window in certain ways

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#32166: Tor Browser (and Firefox) clobber my clipboard when I return to the window
in certain ways
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     Reporter:  arma                      |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
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 1) click-click the url in the url bar, so the url is highlighted
 2) go to another application, highlight something new with your mouse, and
 then alt-tab back to the browser.
 3) the browser will re-highlight the url for you, clobbering whatever you
 highlighted in the other application.

 This behavior is really frustrating because I have two common workflows:

 a) highlight a thing in my browser and then paste it onto irc or into a
 terminal
 b) highlight a thing from irc or a terminal and then go back to the
 browser, ctrl-t to get a new window, and paste it into the url bar of the
 browser

 and if I have done action 'a' as my most recent browser interaction (which
 is common because one of the ways I finish a browser interaction is by
 wanting to paste a url into another application), then later when I try
 action 'b', I end up instead pasting the original url from my earlier
 browser interaction.

 This is a change in the browser behavior compared to a year or two ago --
 specifically, I believe step 3 didn't used to happen.

 The bug impacts me on both Tor Browser (8.x and 9.x) and Firefox (60esr on
 Debian).

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