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    Firefox: Enabling Cut, Copy & Paste commands

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by digicamhelp, Aug 31, 2007.

  1. digicamhelp

    digicamhelp Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    I can't believe the folks who created Firefox disable by default the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. I've been ONLY using them over 20 years and use them every day to work on my website.

    Anyway, I followed their instructions to enable the commands. Does not work!!!


    Here are their instructions:

    http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/securityprefs.html


    Here is how they say to correct the problem in Vista:

    C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ on Windows Vista, and the rest should be obvious.

    Obvious??? Evidently, not to me. As I said, it doesn't work for me.

    Any suggestions? Thanks.
     

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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I've never had any issue with using cut and past in Firefox.
     
    ZaZ, Aug 31, 2007
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  3. digicamhelp

    digicamhelp Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Are you using version 2 with Vista???

    Maybe I'll try to find an previous version, though I'd still like to hear if someone knows of a solution.
     
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    qhn Notebook User

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    no cut, copy & paste issue here with ff2 - vista or xp
    re.install ff may be?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Aug 31, 2007
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  5. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Huh? I've always been able to copy/paste just fine.

    What exactly is it you can't copy/paste?
     
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  6. digicamhelp

    digicamhelp Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    It doesn't work in the text editor in the Content Management System I use. The script used in Coranto is a third party javascript rich text editor, called TinyMCE.
     
    digicamhelp, Aug 31, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

    Seems like they support Firefox... do you have any extensions installed for Firefox that may be tweaking with how your Javascript runs? Make sure Adblock isn't blocking any URL's on CMS's editing page, etc.
     
    Pitabred, Aug 31, 2007
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  8. ZaZ

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    I' usung XP right now, but had Vista Business with the latest FireFox on last month.
     
    ZaZ, Aug 31, 2007
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