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From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Mar 2010 07:41 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> There's a thread on cocoa-dev at the moment which suggests that Firefox > >> (or just the plugins?) doesn't handle the clipboard entirely properly. > > > > I'd come to a similar conclusion myself. > > > > That would explain why I've never (knowingly) seen it - I very, very rarely > use Firefox. I do. Always. And never come across any copy/paste problems, in 10.4.11 and 10.5.8. And I use it a lot. I reckon that's just a legend. -- Peter
From: Jim on 18 Mar 2010 07:47 On 2010-03-18, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> There's a thread on cocoa-dev at the moment which suggests that Firefox >> >> (or just the plugins?) doesn't handle the clipboard entirely properly. >> > >> > I'd come to a similar conclusion myself. >> > >> >> That would explain why I've never (knowingly) seen it - I very, very rarely >> use Firefox. > > I do. Always. And never come across any copy/paste problems, in 10.4.11 > and 10.5.8. And I use it a lot. How are you doing the copy/paste - keyboard shortcuts, menus, or both? > I reckon that's just a legend. [snort!] Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "[Cocaine] is addictive and probably quite bad for you if you have too much. But the same applies to Battenburg cake, and no one seems to freak out about that, do they?" The Daily Mash
From: Woody on 18 Mar 2010 07:59 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I have had it, but it happens so infrequently it gets put down as 'one > > of those things' > > If only people like you were as intolerant of `bad computing' as people > like me. *YOUR* sort could sort it. If I was testing a product to go out and it did that, I would certainly raise it and stop it going out. But once it is out, I use what is available. It is an irritation but on my systems it is rare enough to not be a problem -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Mar 2010 08:16 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > How are you doing the copy/paste - keyboard shortcuts, menus, or both? Cmd-C Cmd-V, just about always. See the thread 'Apple to ban iPhone screen films?' where I did just that. In Firefox. Never fails. It's legend, I tell you. -- Peter
From: D.M. Procida on 18 Mar 2010 08:18
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > If only people like you were as intolerant of `bad computing' as people > > like me. *YOUR* sort could sort it. > > If I was testing a product to go out and it did that, I would certainly > raise it and stop it going out. It's a problem that happens so rarely and inconsistently that most people who encounter it aren't even sure it happened. That is not an easy kind of problem to trouble-shoot. Daniele |