thunderbird pdf viewer

I did locate this bug report:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2010992

It would be helpful if you could tell us: What OS are you using? What version of Thunderbird are you using?

When you say it does not work, it would be helpful if you can state exactly what you did.

I did this: I'm using 'Preview in Thunderbird' so it opens in a tab Make sure no options are selected, then use the >> to select the 'Text Selection Tool' When I hover text area, the mouse cursor changes from the pointer to a 'text' cursor - does this happen for you?

Select some text, up pops the small area containing the icons for comment and highlight options - ignore this - right click on the selected text and you should get the small menu drop down offering 'Copy, Paste, Select all' - where you can select 'Copy'.

I have no problem in latest beta , but did find the version 140.14.1esr seemed to be a bit of a hit and miss situation.

Not all PDFs have selectable text. Some may appear as text, but they are actually images. Are you sure it's real text?

The ones that contain actual text are selectable by me using Thunderbird 140.14esr in Windows 10.