[teruakohatu]

I hear what you are saying but the entire architecture is build around IPC message passing. A lot of user interaction will work the same way. There is nothing inherently more difficult about this scenario than many others within Firefox.

If it has such a convoluted code path that it cannot even be debugged then that’s an issue with the architecture, not that the user has a crazy difficult edge case which every other browser seems to manage.

Judging by the comments a lot of people in this thread have been affected by this issue.

[kstenerud]

It's a caching issue, so it's by definition as tricky and elusive as a sasquatch.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

[kibwen]

> Judging by the comments a lot of people in this thread have been affected by this issue.

I'm sincerely surprised by how many people on Hacker News are apparently copy/pasting with the context menu rather than using Ctrl+C.

PSA for some common keyboard shortcuts:

Alt+Left to navigate back (Alt+Right to navigate forward)

Ctrl+T to open a new tab (Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen previously closed tab)

Ctrl+N to open a new window (Ctrl+Shift+N to reopen previously closed window)

Ctrl+Shift+P to open a new private window

Ctrl+W to close the current tab (Ctrl+Q to close all windows)

Ctrl+R to reload the page (Ctrl+Shift+R to do a forced reload of cached assets)

Ctrl+Plus to zoom in (Ctrl+Minus to zoom out, Ctrl+Zero to reset zoom level)

Ctrl+Tab to focus the next tab in line (Ctrl+Shift+Tab for the previous tab in line)

Alt+One to focus the first tab (Alt+Two for the second tab, etc.)

Ctrl+F to search the text of the page (/ (forward slash) for quick find)

[fourteenfour]

A person selecting text on a webpage is usually using the mouse already. It's reasonable to use the same device to choose the copy command.

[wormius]

Sometimes people gotta jerk, and that leaves only one hand free, which means. Mouse for interaction, Obviously.

But more seriously - FF isn't vim and no I'm not installing vim keybindings. And I do use the keyboard a lot (I've had to teach coworkers the tips for tab navigation for example), when in "type/entry" mode (oh maybe VIM is the right metaphor hmm).

Anyways, sometimes you're just chilling with a few tabs and wanna pop back and forth between a few, and not be in type mode... So mouse it is. And if you're using mouse and hand off the keyboard it's far easier to just use the right click (I've only started doing this the past year or two... likewise I've taken to right click, back from the popup menu instead of dragging mouse across to the back arrow. (but if on keyboard yeah I alt-arrow it).

What i love is how everyone just demands everyone use the interface the exact same way for all purposes and times.

I do get frustrated at my roomie who won't just do it my way, when I ask her to search for something or I'm trying to help with something technical and she's in control of her laptop... though, and in those times I'm 100% right and legit. That's the only exception to my paragraph above.