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Linking doesn't work correctly when keyboard used to select text in firefox

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#437 opened on Oct 20, 2015

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Description

If you select text using the keyboard in firefox (e.g. shift+left) then add a link (either with the button or cmd+k) then the link itself gets pasted in instead of the text being linked. This doesn't happen in chrome.

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Research direction
Investigate the keyboard selection handling in Firefox and trace the link insertion logic to identify the cause of the bug. Compare with Chrome's behavior to isolate the Firefox specific issue.
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javascript
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frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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70