Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: PSA: Clipboard differences between Chromium & Firefox across platforms Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:32:24 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <10mld1o$1910$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10mn1cg$l568$1@paganini.bofh.team> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2grCHOzpFqHYjK77YOGwGAVIZZr6ynu8f/iyfpwvNXw7VZahQE Cancel-Lock: sha1:J/RoFpO2a+IHElMhVbSYZ2IjCZY= sha256:UrKMt6et6GzlCPI/5UBxZCAWYlYd1fewTPGO9HPiXQE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <10mn1cg$l568$1@paganini.bofh.team> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:16234 comp.sys.mac.system:146078 alt.os.linux:82184 On 2026-02-13 12:19, R Daneel Olivaw wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2026-02-12 21:26, Maria Sophia wrote: >>> PSA: Clipboard differences between Chromium & Firefox across platforms >>> >>> I do a lot of research as I generally invest at least an hour or >>> two into many of my Usenet opening posts, where I currently >>> employ a thousand- line Windows Notepad++ macro that beautifully >>> cleans up non-ASCII garbage copied from both Firefox and >>> Chromium web output, where, only with Chromium pastes into >>> Notepad++ was the selection mechanism (i.e., Ctrl+A) inoperative. >> >> How do you propose we test this in Linux? There is no notepad++. >> >> ... >> > > Wine? Not going to happen. I have many nice editors native to Linux, no reason to use a foreign editor. If Arlen says that this may be an issue outside of Windows, he must have in mind that we test with some native editor. Name which, name what webpage to test with and paste from. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.