When pasting text into the editor using Firefox, it incorrectly formats the text

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Firefox is weird.

  • Copy from Firefox, paste in Firefox → as reported.
  • Copy from Chrome, paste in Firefox → no newlines at all.
  • Copy from Chrome, paste in Notepad, copy again and paste in Firefox → works.
  • Copy from Firefox and paste in Chrome → works too.

My guess is that both browsers put richtext into the clipboard, and Firefox has problems with pasting that into a plaintext input field. Or could it be that Discourse somehow makes FF think that the editor supports richtext?

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