On 11/3/2012 1:26 AM India Time, _Ralph Fox_ wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:18:29 -0500, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>> WaltS wrote:
>>
>>> I pressed the Select All button under the translated text, did a Ctrl+C
>>> and the copied text shows up in my clipboard, but would not paste into
>>> my text editor app.
>>
>> When using Firefox, the selected text does not show up in my clipboard.
>> When using the other browsers, it does (and is editable in the clipboard
>> manager).
>
>
> The text will show up if one first changes the about:config preference
> dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
> from true to false.
Yes. Setting it to false enables copying of text to clipboard and
pasting that elsewhere.
Thanks a lot.
The name of the key is really for techy people. Could someone please
explain what exactly this key do, so that I can be assured that
changing its value is not breaking down things elsewhere.
>
> Note
>
> A. Setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false is reported to
> break Scratchpad and Stylish.
Ok, I know stylish. What is scratchpad?
>
> B. There is also a bookmarklet at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542938#c5
> for those who do not want to change this preference
> dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
>
>
>> Would Google do something shady like preventing Firefox from working?
>
>
> It would appear to be an issue in handling the onCopy event,
> but I don't know whether it is Firefox's doing or Google's doing.
Mine is ff13, and I had been working in it for a long time and had no
problem. I don't think ff has changed anything recently (I have not
installed anything recently as you can see from v13). must be google's
doing.
If my some addon had changed that, how come all you guys had that
problem because everyone might not have the same add on. So, changing
by addon also does not seem probable.
Thanks.
--
Rawat