Issues with copying information

Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox
where you select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the
address bar), rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste
it hasn't copied it?

Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few
times every day.

Edwierd

Edwierd wrote:
> Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox where you
> select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the address bar),
> rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste it hasn't copied it?
>
> Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few times
> every day.

When you say 'it hasnt copied it' is the "Paste As Quotation" available?

What may be occurring is that the copy included HTML and/or formatting,
and as such a simple "Paste" command isnt available, but you can paste
the material using "Paste As Quotation" instead.

On Thu, 18 May 2006 05:11:17 GMT, in message <VlTag.71710$>,
Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:

> Edwierd wrote:
> > Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox where you
> > select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the address bar),
> > rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste it hasn't copied it?
> >
> > Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few times
> > every day.
>
> When you say 'it hasnt copied it' is the "Paste As Quotation" available?

Would that not depend on which app the OP was pasting it into?

> What may be occurring is that the copy included HTML and/or formatting,
> and as such a simple "Paste" command isnt available, but you can paste
> the material using "Paste As Quotation" instead.

If so, why isn't Firefox putting the data on the clipboard
in multiple formats -- including plain text format -- like
Firefox normally does?

When I select, right-click, and copy from Firefox, data is put
on the clipboard in each and every one of these clipboard formats:

DataObject
text/html
HTML Format
text/_mos_htmlcontext
text/_moz_htmlinfo
Unicode Text
Text
FileGroupDescriptor
FileGroupDescriptorW
FileContents
UniformResourceLocator
UniformResourceLocatorW
OLE Private Data
Locale
OEM Text


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Cheers,
Ralph

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Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
> Edwierd wrote:
>> Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox where you
>> select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the address bar),
>> rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste it hasn't copied it?
>>
>> Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few times
>> every day.
>
> When you say 'it hasnt copied it' is the "Paste As Quotation" available?

Depends (as Ralph said) on the target application. As near as I can
tell Firefox has no "Paste as Quotation" function. Thunderbird and the
Mozilla/SeaMonkey Mail clients do.

In Firefox I can copy text from a Web page and paste it to other apps.
Notepad has one option: "Paste". Word has several including some which
Ralph mentioned in his reply. In Firefox I can copy from and then paste
into, for instance, a form field on a Web page. My Web page
(http://edmullen.net) has a Google search form you can try that with.

>
> What may be occurring is that the copy included HTML and/or formatting,
> and as such a simple "Paste" command isnt available, but you can paste
> the material using "Paste As Quotation" instead.

Again, depends on the target application.

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Ralph Fox wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 05:11:17 GMT, in message <VlTag.71710$>,
> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>
>> Edwierd wrote:
>>> Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox where you
>>> select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the address bar),
>>> rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste it hasn't copied it?
>>>
>>> Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few times
>>> every day.
>> When you say 'it hasnt copied it' is the "Paste As Quotation" available?
>
> Would that not depend on which app the OP was pasting it into?

Right, sorry misread the message. For some reason I thought he was
trying to paste into Thunderbird. my error.

>
>> What may be occurring is that the copy included HTML and/or formatting,
>> and as such a simple "Paste" command isnt available, but you can paste
>> the material using "Paste As Quotation" instead.
>
> If so, why isn't Firefox putting the data on the clipboard
> in multiple formats -- including plain text format -- like
> Firefox normally does?
>
> When I select, right-click, and copy from Firefox, data is put
> on the clipboard in each and every one of these clipboard formats:
>
> DataObject
> text/html
> HTML Format
> text/_mos_htmlcontext
> text/_moz_htmlinfo
> Unicode Text
> Text
> FileGroupDescriptor
> FileGroupDescriptorW
> FileContents
> UniformResourceLocator
> UniformResourceLocatorW
> OLE Private Data
> Locale
> OEM Text
>
>

That I cant say, I havent run into that problem, I dont have an answer
for this one.

Ed Mullen wrote:
> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>> Edwierd wrote:
>>> Anyone else have a problem with the latest update of Firefox where
>>> you select txt from a webpage (or indeed the URL in the address bar),
>>> rightclick, click COPY, and when you go to paste it hasn't copied it?
>>>
>>> Never happened at all before the update, now it happens a few times
>>> every day.
>>
>> When you say 'it hasnt copied it' is the "Paste As Quotation" available?
>
> Depends (as Ralph said) on the target application. As near as I can
> tell Firefox has no "Paste as Quotation" function. Thunderbird and the
> Mozilla/SeaMonkey Mail clients do.
>
> In Firefox I can copy text from a Web page and paste it to other apps.
> Notepad has one option: "Paste". Word has several including some which
> Ralph mentioned in his reply. In Firefox I can copy from and then paste
> into, for instance, a form field on a Web page. My Web page
> (http://edmullen.net) has a Google search form you can try that with.
>
>>
>> What may be occurring is that the copy included HTML and/or
>> formatting, and as such a simple "Paste" command isnt available, but
>> you can paste the material using "Paste As Quotation" instead.
>
> Again, depends on the target application.
>

I misread the original message and supplied erroneous data. For some
reason I though he was trying to paste into Thunderbird. My error