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When you follow a "Source" link on a post's /revisions (versions) page and copy and paste it the line endings are doubled. (Windows 10 Firefox)

(It happens in and out of code blocks. My example happens to be just a code block.)

When I paste the cut text into an an online character identifier there are double CRs & a final LF.

A code block that includes fences to cut & paste:

```
1
2

3


4
```

The revisions page version 2 Source page of this post looks like this code block looks (same as above):

```
1
2

3


4
```

Screenshot from Source page (looks the same as above):

per visible text, Screenshot from Source page that looks like the code block immediately above

Cut & paste into editor from Source page:

```

1

2



3





4

```

I have never not seen this happen, and I first saw it at least several years ago. This also happens pasting into a Windows Notepad .txt.

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    reproduced in Firefox on macOS; doesn't happen in Safari Commented Nov 15 at 7:52
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    Looks like the copy action in Firefox is the problem. If I paste into a text editor or the post editor here in Safari, I also get double lines. When copying from Safari into a text editor, the text editor doesn't like the final LF: i.sstatic.net/OlWaI4G1.png Commented Nov 15 at 8:47

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