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Copy and paste not working

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A community member is experiencing an issue with copying and pasting in the Webstudio application, where they can copy text from other sites but not within Webstudio. The issue seems to be specific to Webstudio and not a general problem. Community members suggest trying a blank project, checking browser versions, and disabling extensions to isolate the issue. After further investigation, the problem is identified as being related to the Chromium version used by the Arc browser, which the community member is using. The issue is escalated and a fix is deployed the next day, resolving the copy-paste problem.

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I never know if these things are a me problem or webstudio, but I can copy say for instance text from other sites fine, but when I try to copy in webstudio it's not copying anymore. (Just using ctrl copy like I always have) - copy and paste is working elementor and figma so it does just seem to be webstudio. - This was working yesterday just fine. I tried disabling all of my chrome extensions, removed all code from the page and page settings, and attempted to use copy and paste in other software with 100% success. :/
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to help you out I need to see specific things
broadly speaking its not broken
So what specific things? I just try to click on a box element (or any element) in the navigator, ctrl C then Ctrl V in windows and it does nothing - if I copy from elsewhere and paste id does paste a paragraph widget containing whatever I had copied. It happens on a completely blank page. - I can make a video or do I need to share the project - it's happening on all of my projects. What do you need from me?
try a blank project to exclude broken project possibilityy
all projects? then its weird
what do you click on to copy?
video would potentially help but need to clearly see what you click before you copy
It is only happening in Chrome - I did update chrome yesterday :/
ok looks like its literally not copying for you
@Fedir can you please confirm on windows if you can see that?
Just copy regular text?
Section are copying on my laptop, text also
can you copy and paste a box?
please share the browser version, both, we need you both to have the same version
and both use incognito mode, so that there are 0 extensions interfering potentially
I can copy the box
Even with extensions
yeah we need to see what browser version @MagicalPrism has and what happens without extensions there to exclude some terrible extension
pleaase share your links with your browser version both, so we can know who needs to update πŸ™‚
with identical browser we should be able to reproduce the problem
I did remove all the extensions and try it and it still didn't work - but who knows, could still be one somehow -
I too have run into the insertion problem. And pasting works because it takes text from the buffer. But copying apparently does not.

Arc 1.81.0 (58533)
Chromium Engine Version 133.0.6943.54
So the problem is with Arc specifically
we can't reproduce this unfortunately, need more information
We found the source of issue - chromium 133, which Arc was using and if you upgrade it will be in chrome as well

Escalated the issue to hotfix level https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/issues/4856
Affects navigator only, copying from canvas works.
I am having the same issue and it makes it really hard to copy over "slots" widgets.
Will be released tomorrow
We just deployed the fix. Copy paste should work now.
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