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Copycat is not working in Chrome (especially the Hotkey)

Open Norlandz opened this issue 1 year ago • 19 comments

in_short

Copycat has been working fine before in Chrome.

But in the recent 2~3? weeks, Copycat starts to not working sometimes (especially the Hotkey).

I have not idea what is the cause.

details

  • I have set hotkey shortcuts for Copycat in Chrome, and it has been working before.

  • Recently, when I:

    1. open a web page (a tab)
    2. select some text & try to copy into Markdown/Html/PlainText ...

    -> 70% of the time, the Copycat Hotkey fails to copy -- nothing is copied/updated to the Clipboard (-- Clipboard remains unchanged).

    • (70% -- the percentage is base on the page-open actions, not the copy actions (see below [page-open action based]))
  • I tired to refresh the page / restart the browser / disable&enable the extension / disable all other extension. Still, cant solve the problem -- it still only works sometimes (--ie: if you refresh multiple times, you may eventually get a page that have Copycat working...)

    I tried to reinstall the extension, not helping.

  • If the page was opened & copycat works, then it remains to work, as long as I dont refresh the page. If the page was opened & copycat doesnt work, then it remains to doesnt work, as long as I dont refresh the page. (page-open action based)

    So, it may be: working in one web page (one tab), while failing to work in another web page (another tab).

    Its not for a specific website -- it can happen to any website.

  • If I right click and use the context menu (not hotkey) to select Copycat to copy, -> still.... 60% of the time, the Copycat (Context Menu) fails to copy,

    There could be a case where: Hotkey is not working & Context menu is not working either. (most of the time) There could be a case where: Hotkey is not working, but Context menu works. (sometimes)

  • I tried to assign the same Hotkey to other extensions -- the Hotkey is working fine for others, but not for Copycat.

Norlandz avatar Mar 22 '23 23:03 Norlandz