Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!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 21:13:22 +0100 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <10mld1o$1910$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10mnphj$24h7$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net BRA4xulQ6fTPuBF1cGmvogbagQW44LtfTyf6HyE0D7vaM1rUON Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWvzsEg6B/lTacP2sk3nYaLhz1I= sha256:yHOps4mJtsXJs7u7qIVptVazO2RjYzidioLpoID5OII= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <10mnphj$24h7$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:16248 comp.sys.mac.system:146091 alt.os.linux:82197 On 2026-02-13 19:12, Maria Sophia wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >>> 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++. > > Hi Carlos, > > Thanks for asking, where I'll propose a test for Linux later, but first I > need you to understand that the problem exists across all platforms > (AFAIK). > > Reacting to a perceived incredularity on your part, I simply ask (a bit > snarkily in jest so as to bring the conversation back to where it belongs), > are we really prepared to claim that Linux users, who are those same people > who have approximately seventeen text editors installed before breakfast, > have never once copied any text from Firefox or Chromium and pasted it into > vi, vim, GVim, Kate, gedit, or any of the other editors that have existed > since the Pleistocene? I copy paste rich text from Firefox into editors without problems. I do not use Chrome, but I have it installed. > > Because the absence of native Notepad++ on Linux doesn't magically prevent > clipboard testing. The clipboard exists. Chromium exists. Firefox exists. > Editors exist. > The only missing ingredient would be the willingness to actually try it. > > If the question is whether the Chromium HTML-Fragment/StartHTML clipboard > quirk shows up on Linux, the answer depends entirely on whether the editor > in question reacts to the presence of HTML on the clipboard. > Some may. Some may not. That's the whole point of the PSA! > > To warn others that the behavior comes from the browser's clipboard > serialization, not from Windows, Notepad++, or any single platform. > > So yes, of course this can be tested on Linux. It always could. > The prerequisite is acknowledging that "Notepad++ doesn't run on Linux" is > not the airtight argument all the follow on posters seem to believe. I pasted an entire web page from Chrome into Kate and LO Write, with no perceived problems. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.