Bug in current version of Firefox

[GP49]

For those who do not use the Firefox browser, go to the next message.

Those who do, and who have not yet updated to the latest version, Firefox 22: DON'T DO IT.

There is an annoying bug in Firefox 22. Copying text to paste into a document or into an item in another program doesn't work well. It almost never works by using the Cut or Copy commands in the right-click drop-down menu. It works a little better, but still not always, by using the Copy command in the Edit drop-down menu from the toolbar.

What happens: if you select text in Firefox and right click, then choose Copy, or use Copy in the Edit drop-down menu, then try to paste the text into a document or E-mail or other composition window, the Paste command is greyed out and won't work.

Mozilla has acknowledged the problem but the only suggestion they have is to wait for Firefox 23, currently in development only; the version they have on their beta release channel DOES have the bug fixed. Another user has had success backdating Firefox to Version 21, which didn't have the problem.

The one way in which the Copy function is reliable is to use the good old MS-DOS command, Ctrl-C. I don't want to potentially mess things up by backdating and don't want to load a beta version, so for me, that will have to do for now.

Firefox help page about the problem:

Can't copy and paste from Firefox 22.0 anymore

 

[asterion]

Seems fine on my intel Imac.

 

[GP49]

Could be it doesn't affect the Mac version; the Firefox help article doesn't say.

 

[TheX]

Gotta love Chrome.

 

[bsujeep]

works fine on my xp machine and office 2003

 

[HeezDeadJim]

I'm not having any problems either.

Win7 64-bit here. What other browsers do you have? I don't have Chrome or other browers on mine. Just IE10 and Firefox. Could it be a conjunction issue?

 

[Judas Priest]

Works fine for me too; Win 8 64 bit.

 

[GP49]

I'm not having any problems either.

Win7 64-bit here. What other browsers do you have? I don't have Chrome or other browers on mine. Just IE10 and Firefox. Could it be a conjunction issue?

Just IE10 and Firefox here, too, and Win7 64-bit. Since Mozilla has admitted the bug exists, that's enough for me. I'll wait for them to issue v.23 which they acknowledge has the problem fixed. Meanwhile, it's good old MS-DOS Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, for me. But I'd still advise any Windows 7 users who have not yet updated their Firefox to v.22: Don't do it.

 

[finnbow]

No issues here with 32 bit Win XP.

 

[devnull]

Yeah...but does it still do pr0n? That's obviously the issue of real importance.

 

[JBL GUY]

It has been working OK for me.

Windows 7 Pro and Firefox 22.

 

[Rick Vestal]

Yeah...but does it still do pr0n? That's obviously the issue of real importance.

I'll check. Brb in one minute, thirty seven seconds...

 

[jhtstone]

works fine on my xp machine and office 2003

Same here.

 

[TitaniumMan]

"There is an annoying bug in Firefox 22. Copying text to paste into a document or into an item in another program doesn't work well. It almost never works by using the Cut or Copy commands in the right-click drop-down menu. It works a little better, but still not always, by using the Copy command in the Edit drop-down menu from the toolbar."

Well. that was copied from Firefox 22 and pasted into Opera using the context menu. I also copied the text into a test Word document and into email. I'm running XP 32,

 

[bad400]

Though i haven't tried copy/paste into office or other similar program, i haven't had a issue copy/pasting on forums or FB.
I run firefox on a desktop and laptop running XP, and on a laptop running Win7.
Been using firefox for like 5 years now, i do get some glitches once in awhile, but firefox seems to catch them pretty fast.

I also copy documents and music to a usb thumb drive all the time, haven't found any issues.

 

[GP49]

Thanks to all who replied saying that you have no problems. That's good.

"...i haven't had a issue copy/pasting on forums or FB." Perhaps that is because it happens much less if you are using Firefox both for the source of your copied text and for the destination for the pasted text. The quoted clause above pasted perfectly here, Firefox to Firefox...but it won't into a Word document or into a Thunderbird E-mail.

So for me it still doesn't work except very occasionally and very intermittenly; and Firefox is definitely admitting something is wrong, in their Help forum.