bug#58533: 29.0.50; copy/paste from emacs into abrowser stops working after some time

[Po Lu]

Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org> writes:

> After some unknown amount of time of starting emacs and abrowser, maybe
> an hour or more, when I copy from emacs and paste into abrowser, nothing
> is pasted, as if there is nothing in the copy buffer. But I can still
> paste into other programs, like a terminal. Then if I copy out of the
> terminal, I can paste that into abrowser.
>
> Abrowser is a lightly modified derivative of firefox, I'm using version
> 105.0.2 (this corresponds to the same firefox version).
>
> My coworker greg experienced the same problem today, so I know this
> isn't just my system.
>
> I'm happy to run commands that might help with debugging this if someone
> will suggest some.

Could you instead build Emacs with:

  #define TRACE_SELECTION

added to the top of xselect.c, and show what is printed by Emacs once
you fail to copy text into abrowser?

Thanks.