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Problem pasting using Firefox

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onzey Posts: 830 Forumite

29 May 2005 at 6:11PM in Site feedback and Forum Help

Not sure if I've accidentally changed something but when replying to threads at the moment if I copy some text or a web address from somewhere (right click, copy) to paste in my reply, when I right click in the reply window I just get the web page options like Back, Reload Bookmark this page, etc. i.e I don't get the option to paste. I'm using Firefox and just checked what happens with IE and that works as expected. It was working ok in Firefox until today I think.

Any ideas?

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derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite

29 May 2005 at 6:26PM

onzey wrote:

Not sure if I've accidentally changed something but when replying to threads at the moment if I copy some text or a web address from somewhere (right click, copy) to paste in my reply, when I right click in the reply window I just get the web page options like Back, Reload Bookmark this page, etc. i.e I don't get the option to paste. I'm using Firefox and just checked what happens with IE and that works as expected. It was working ok in Firefox until today I think.

Any ideas?

When pasting using Firefox press Ctrl+v

Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition

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onzey Posts: 830 Forumite

29 May 2005 at 7:03PM

Thanks derrick, Ctrl+v does work ok.

But I'm sure I've used right click/paste before.

Is it me?

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Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite

29 May 2005 at 7:31PM

I use Firefox onzey and sometimes I can use copy and paste and other times I have to use Crtl and v. Not sure why it is only sometimes.

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sra Posts: 4,676 Forumite

30 May 2005 at 12:00AM

It's a Firefox security thing. There are lots of threads on this at vbulletin.com

Here's the latest one:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138740&highlight=firefox+paste

Post 14:

"What I would suggest is to petition Mozilla for easier ways to handle this functionality which has legitimate purposes on the Internet."

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dag_2 Posts: 793 Forumite

31 May 2005 at 7:16PM

I'm using a version of Mozilla on Windows, and I don't seem to have any problems. Is it affecting all versions of Firefox, or only a few of them?

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sra Posts: 4,676 Forumite

31 May 2005 at 7:22PM

dag wrote:

I'm using a version of Mozilla on Windows, and I don't seem to have any problems. Is it affecting all versions of Firefox, or only a few of them?

It's only a problem if you have the reply box set to the enhanced interface

If you are using the standard or basic interface, paste works as normal

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dag_2 Posts: 793 Forumite

31 May 2005 at 7:25PM

Aha - I see. Thanks.

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