Yank functionality not working in Brave Browser

[harsath]

Describe the bug: I'm having issues with the "yank" functionality in Vimium for Brave; in particular, yy and yf. When I press yy the extension does report that the value of the URL has been yanked: see this screenshot. Same applies for yf; when I enter yf and chose a link, it reports that the desired link has been yanked: see this screenshot.

However, when I try to access the clipboard using CMD + v -- the value of the clipboard is not the one yanked by Vimium, rather it contains the old value (the texts that I manually copied using CMD + c or Right-click -> Copy Link Address for example).

To Reproduce:

1. "Yank" a URL (using either yy or yf)
2. Go to another tab
3. Use CMD + v to paste the URL to test if Vimium modified the clipboard.

Brave Browser Version: Version 1.52.130 Chromium: 114.0.5735.198 (Official Build) (arm64)

Platform: macOS 13.4.1

Vimium version: 1.67.7

[ferdinandyb]

I think this is the same as #4153, I use Brave, but I experienced this in vanilla chrome also: it seems that yank doesn't always work and I see the same error in the console as the linked issue.

[ambareesh-jayakumari]

Reporting another instance of the same - I had it working fairly consistently in Chrome, but when I switched to Brave it never works.

[brandonkboswell]

I believe I am also experiencing this on Arc.

[danielkaczmarczyk]

works for me on:

Version 1.57.53 Chromium: 116.0.5845.114 (Official Build) (arm64), Vimium 1.67.7

I have added vimium just to test it to Brave cause of this issue (mainly use FF), and it asked me for explicit permission for clipboard access. Maybe you have a blanket policy that rejects them or at some point in the past you've disallowed them?

Worth checking I think.

[ferdinandyb]

Hmm, I checked, it does not have clipboard access listed.

Permissions
Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices
Display notifications
Read and change your bookmarks

[ferdinandyb]

Ok, so interestingly, vimium previously never asked me for this permission, but I tested just now, and it did. It now seems to work. To verify, go to brave://settings/content/clipboard and check if vimium is listed under "allowed to see your clipboard" part.

[brandonkboswell]

Thank you, @ferdinandyb. I had this same issue in Arc and was able to solve it by going to: chrome://settings/content/clipboard

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