PowerBI behaves buggy when copying queries to clipboard. I started investigating this, as I am the developer of https://powerqueryformatter.com where I integrated a feature that allows pasting querie...
Ok I will post there. Just FYI the bug also persists in powerbi service when open in Firefox. Have a look at this gif where I perform the following steps:
1) In powerbi desktop copy a Query to clipboard
2) Go to powerbi service dataflow UI in Google Chrome and paste the query, works perfectly
3) Go to powerbi service dataflow UI in Firefox and paste the query, an error is displayed (because of the same bug I mentioned in my original post)
So the Issue does not only affect my application in Firefox but also your own application