diff --git a/frontend/controller/app/identity.js b/frontend/controller/app/identity.js
index 68d573745..f6a2746f0 100644
--- a/frontend/controller/app/identity.js
+++ b/frontend/controller/app/identity.js
@@ -390,6 +390,16 @@ export default (sbp('sbp/selectors/register', {
             try {
               await sbp('chelonia/contract/sync', identityContractID)
             } catch (e) {
+              // Since we're throwing or returning, the `await` below will not
+              // be used. In either case, login won't complete after this point,
+              // so errors there aren't relevant anymore.
+              loginCompletePromise.catch((e) => {
+                // Using `warn` level because this error is not so relevant
+                // However, errors might be helpful for debugging purposes, so
+                // we still log it.
+                console.warn('[gi.app/identity/login] Error in login complete promise', e)
+              })
+
               // To make it easier to test things during development, if the
               // identity contract no longer exists, we automatically log out
               // If we're in production mode, we show a prompt instead as logging
diff --git a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/MessageBase.vue b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/MessageBase.vue
index 8eebf4f3a..1bf4583bc 100644
--- a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/MessageBase.vue
+++ b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/MessageBase.vue
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@ export default ({
       this.$emit('add-emoticon', emoticon.native || emoticon)
     },
     openMenu () {
-      this.$refs.messageAction.$refs.menu.handleTrigger()
+      if (this.$refs.messageAction?.$refs?.menu) {
+        this.$refs.messageAction.$refs.menu.handleTrigger()
+      }
     },
     longPressHandler (e) {
       const wrappingLinkTag = e.target.closest('a.link[href]')
@@ -230,7 +232,7 @@ export default ({
         const url = wrappingLinkTag.getAttribute('href')
         sbp('okTurtles.events/emit', OPEN_TOUCH_LINK_HELPER, url)
         e?.preventDefault()
-      } else {
+      } else if (!this.isEditing) {
         this.openMenu()
       }
     }
diff --git a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/SendArea.vue b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/SendArea.vue
index e3f6700a6..e41cf978d 100644
--- a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/SendArea.vue
+++ b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/SendArea.vue
@@ -562,6 +562,11 @@ export default ({
       }
     },
     handlePaste (e) {
+      if (e.clipboardData.files.length > 0) {
+        this.fileAttachmentHandler(e.clipboardData.files, true)
+        return
+      }
+
       // fix for the edge-case related to 'paste' action when nothing has been typed
       // (reference: https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income/issues/2369)
       const currVal = this.$refs.textarea.value
diff --git a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/chat-mentions/chat-mentions-utils.js b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/chat-mentions/chat-mentions-utils.js
index b623dc12c..7d47c68ff 100644
--- a/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/chat-mentions/chat-mentions-utils.js
+++ b/frontend/views/containers/chatroom/chat-mentions/chat-mentions-utils.js
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ function createRecursiveDomObjects (element: any): DomObject {
 
   const isNodeTypeText = element?.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE
   const isNodeCodeElement = element?.nodeName === 'CODE' // <code> ... </code> element needs a special treatment in the chat.
+  const isBodyElement = element?.nodeName === 'BODY'
 
   const nodeObj: DomObject = isNodeTypeText
     ? { tagName: null, attributes: {}, text: element.textContent }
@@ -87,9 +88,14 @@ function createRecursiveDomObjects (element: any): DomObject {
       nodeObj.children.push(createRecursiveDomObjects(child))
     }
 
-    nodeObj.children = nodeObj.children.filter(
-      child => child.tagName || (child.text || '').trim().length
-    )
+    nodeObj.children = nodeObj.children.filter(child => {
+      if (child.tagName) return true
+      else {
+        return isBodyElement
+          ? child.text !== '\n' // DOMParser.parseFromString() adds a '\n' at the end of the body content which needs to be removed.
+          : (child.text || '').length
+      }
+    })
   }
 
   return nodeObj
diff --git a/frontend/views/utils/markdown-utils.js b/frontend/views/utils/markdown-utils.js
index c4f92e1b2..0c25e3c46 100644
--- a/frontend/views/utils/markdown-utils.js
+++ b/frontend/views/utils/markdown-utils.js
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ export function renderMarkdown (str: string): any {
   // STEP 3. Remove the unecessary starting/end line-breaks added in/outside of the converted html tags.
   converted = converted.replace(/<([a-z]+)>\n/g, '<$1>')
     .replace(/\n<\/([a-z]+)>/g, '</$1>')
-
   return converted
 }