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URL: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a4270ab091360d45ad089295c8a638125f3dbc710c0af6104fa554396f4c6636/details

Browser / Version: Firefox 71.0
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.14
Tested Another Browser: Yes

Problem type: Something else
Description: Selected text copied in Firefox has whitespace
Steps to Reproduce:
Select and copy a hash text in Firefox (see screenshot)

In Firefox, the copied text has leading and trailing whitespace even though the selection was just on text.

In Chrome, only the text is copied as expected

The whitespace from Firefox can cause unexpected behaviour when pasting the text into other places

Browser Configuration

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Submitted in the name of @wesinator

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[softvision-oana-arbuzov]

Thanks for the report, I was able to reproduce the issue. Pasting the coped text in the "Search" field, adds a white space after the text.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 73.0a1 (2019-12-22)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Moving to Needsdiagnosis for further investigation.

[karlcow]

This is the HTML as rendered in Gecko.

<a class="">
                          <div hidden="">
                            
                          </div>
                          a4270ab091360d45ad089295c8a638125f3dbc710c0af6104fa554396f4c6636
                        </a>

And this is what is returned with two different methods:

temp0.innerText
"a4270ab091360d45ad089295c8a638125f3dbc710c0af6104fa554396f4c6636"
temp0.textContent
"
                          
                            
                          
                          a4270ab091360d45ad089295c8a638125f3dbc710c0af6104fa554396f4c6636
                        "

When I double click on it and copy/paste:

 a4270ab091360d45ad089295c8a638125f3dbc710c0af6104fa554396f4c6636 

I get a leading space and a trailing space which are both not visible on the selection

There is an open issue about this.

[karlcow]

Close as duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043118

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