Mozilla Firefox and Forums: Copy and Paste

[Pia]

Hi i am using mozilla firefox version 1.0.3. When I am on a forum- (namely this one) I cant seem to copy and paste. I get the message:
"You need to edit your Mozilla config. file to allow this action"

How on earth do you do this? I know how to type the about:config, then don't have a clue after that .

Help appreciated!

[ikthius]

I haven't heard of this, but if you sign up and ask the good people in this forum then I think they will give you the answer.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewfo...d632db585be770
it is the official mozilla forum, and I have provided the link to the firefox general forum, just create a new thread, and type exactly what it says in your original post.

ik

[Strzelecki]

Try the instructions here: http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasd...rityprefs.html
It apparently can fix your problem.
To summarise:
Close down Firefox, do a search for prefs.js. It should be in a directory like C:\Documents and Settings\<account name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and then in a random folder like erfHgd.default. If there's not such file there then you'll need to create it. If the file is there, right click and open with notepad (or if it's not open notepad anyway) and add these line of code:

  
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
  user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");
  user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites","http://www.cableforum.co.uk");
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");

Save the file as prefs.js and reopen Firefox. Copy and paste should now work for this site.

[Paulie]

Or if you can right click to copy, just go to edit then paste. that`s what i have to do. It`s a pain in the @$$ but you get used to it.

[NitroNutter]

Originally Posted by Paulie

Or if you can right click to copy, just go to edit then paste. that`s what i have to do. It`s a pain in the @$$ but you get used to it.

shift + insert is way quicker to paste

[Pia]

Originally Posted by NitroNutter

shift + insert is way quicker to paste

That works..... i didn't even edit my config file yet....

thanks.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by NitroNutter

shift + insert is way quicker to paste

You mean that Firefox doesn't use the standard CTRL + V that most other windows apps do?

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by scastle

You mean that Firefox doesn't use the standard CTRL + V that most other windows apps do?

Of course it does.

[NitroNutter]

Originally Posted by scastle

You mean that Firefox doesn't use the standard CTRL + V that most other windows apps do?

2 lefts and a right is quicker than 3 lefts on a keyb and for me theres often an alt + tab before the paste

[altis]

Firefox appears to have intermittent probs with cut and paste:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...020&highlight=