Clipboard copies URL instead of text selected on webpage

[hp4k1h5]

Test plan

1. Visit a site which has text you can select (ex: https://brave.com)
2. Click into the URL bar. Ensure all text is selected (Ctrl + A or Cmd + A)
3. Highlight text on the web page
4. Copy selection using Ctrl + C / Cmd + C
5. Paste into a text editor like Notepad or Sublime

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• Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one?
  yes

• Describe the issue you encountered:
  copy and paste non-functioning, seems "stuck" on URL or other page feature

• Platform (macOS sierra 10.12.5):

• Brave Version (0.8.14):

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Visit a site which has text you can select (ex: https://brave.com)
  2. Click into the URL bar. Ensure all text is selected (Ctrl + A or Cmd + A)
  3. Highlight text on the web page
  4. Copy selection using Ctrl + C / Cmd + C
  5. Paste into a text editor like Notepad or Sublime

• Actual result:
  pastes either page URL(which i never even copied!) or some other feature from the page (that i never copied), not the selected text.

• Expected result:
  selected and copied text will paste

• Will the steps above reproduce in a fresh profile? If not what other info can be added?

• Is this an issue in the currently released version?
  not sure

• Can this issue be consistently reproduced?
  yes this is at least the second time i encounter this bug. i think a brave restart will mitigate this but it seems to be persistent

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[bsclifton]

@hp4k1h5 thanks for the report! 😄 I have seen this (or something like it) too (and I know others have- cc: @bbondy, @jonathansampson)

[thbtmntgn]

Same problem for me on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and Brave 0.8.14 !

[NejcZdovc]

STR:
not working

1. focus url bar (make sure that url is selected)
2. copy something from the webview

working

1. focus url bar
2. place cursor at the end of the url bar
3. copy something from the webview

[bsclifton]

This works great in 0.17.19 but happens in all versions of 0.18.x (I went as far back as 0.18.1). Needs more investigation

[bsclifton]

I went back through old versions of 0.18.x and found the commit in which this breaks:
6cf2098

If you grab this commit and then run the following:

rm -rf node_modules && npm install
CHANNEL=dev npm run build-package
CHANNEL=dev npm run build-installer

You can install that version of Brave (the DMG for example) and the bug is present. If you check out the prior commit and follow those same steps, it works.

[bsclifton]

I used the above commit (6cf2098) and tried an earlier version of Muon (4.3.0 is the first which uses Chromium 60). This also fails

[darkdh]

We need to revert this
43e5541