Coping test seems to work fine in Chrome and Safari, so don't think Google broke anything in regards to text selection/copy/paste on the page.
From a quick look at the DOM, I'd bet dollars to donuts it's the weird combination of custom WebComponents and the #shadow-root stuff and other various markup excess that they just didn't bother to test with Firefox. Whether it's a bug with Firefox itself and how these elements are handled, I guess would need some investigation. But if it were my web app, I'd probably just fix it instead of blaming the browser.
Screen capture: https://imgur.com/RmoSZRB
Screencast: https://youtu.be/XGTyDQGTC4E