I'm getting a very weird problem with firefox:

sometimes it can't copy text. Not that it fails, which is a common problem on operating systems with clipboards. No, the copy option is greyed out.

That's normal linux/firefox weirdness. Here's the really weird part: Every time I see this happen, I try to screenshot it by hitting printscript. This unfortunately closes the menu, so I can't screenshot it... but doing this also FIXES THE PROBLEM

to be clear: I can right click the text all day, and the "copy" option will never activate.

but as soon as I hit printscreen, which DOESN'T YET COPY ANYTHING, it fixes the copy option

@foone I've seen something similar a few times, but the clipboard was 'fixed' by copying *anything* from another application that wasn't Firefox into the clipboard. Then Firefox could copy stuff again.

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