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MicrosoftDev channel update to 96.0.1047.2 is live
One example is to visit this page, https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/dev-channel-update-to-96-0-1047-2-is-live/m-p/2866266, and triple click on the word "channel" in the header "Dev channel update to 96.0.1047.2 is live". On stable this will select the whole line. On dev and canary this will almost always select only the single word.
And the issue with copy and that if I select text and press Ctrl+C, nothing is copied. I have to keep going back, waiting for a bit, then pressing Ctrl+C again. I'm pretty sure this is the mini menu. The mini menu in Office apps does not have any such problems.
I questioned Microsoft Editor because I had some issues disappear in canary last week when I turned it off. The primary reason I turned it off was that for several builds, Edge would crash when it was turned on and I absolutely wanted to avoid the crashes. I have since turned it back on but I thought it also helped with the triple click and Ctrl+C issues.
Microsoftrshupak I think the triple click issue is just a timing thing that we need to fix. As far as I can tell, if you triple click fast enough so that the third click happens before the fade-in animation for the mini menu is complete, then the whole line/paragraph gets selected no problem. If instead you wait until the menu is visible, the third click just dismisses it, and any subsequent clicks de-select the text. My gut tells me that just increasing the amount of time between when text is selected and when the mini menu appears will help with this.
As far as copying failing, I've also noticed this happening with images, so it seems unrelated to either of the features you mentioned, and may just be a regression in how quickly we're able to shove data onto the clipboard, especially if you're copying a lot of data. The fact that turning off Editor may have helped you with this is likely just because Editor was adding complexity that was reducing the copy time even further, and although we did specifically fix an issue where Editor was causing crashes, those crashes were also unrelated to the copying behavior! Since a lot of the copy code comes from Chromium, it's also possible this is just something we'll get a fix for from them, so if you have a reliable way of trigger the copy fail, I'd be very curious to see if you can still get it to happen in the next build.
- Re triple click, I do think timing is an issue but it may be more complicated. It often works once but then fails repeatedly.
I mentioned Office because it has similar menus with which I have never had timing or similar issues. - I'm typically copying one or a few words of text only within a single span or div so it isn't the speed of the clipboard. The problem appeared around when the mini menu and Microsoft Editor features appeared.
