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Copy and Paste removes formatting - why?

MacDawg said:
My God woman... why do you need all of those browsers? :rolleyes:

You can put Camino back in your collection of toys here


Woof, Woof - Dawg
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Thanks, but na, I decided I didn't like that one. I use different browsers so I can have different gmail accounts open at the same time. Although, I've started using IMAP which is taking me away from all that. I like to test out my websites in all the browsers though.

mkrishnan said:
This set of results is kind of curious, actually... well, I would have said the issue is purely that the Mac Firefox is not pushing out formatted text to the copy buffer. But the fact that Windows Firefox (which apparently is) is not able to paste rich data into Mac Word is a standout (you can paste rich text between, say, Windows Word and Mac Word, with Parallels or whatever you're using, right?). So my guess would be that, while the Windows version of Firefox does generate rich text in the copy buffer, it does it with a more obscure format type that Windows apps such as Office for Windows understand, but not in a format that Macs understand. Which is troubling -- why would Mozilla have chosen a weird format for their copies?
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I didn't expect this to work, but I tried it anyway: copied from Windows Firefox to Windows Word to Mac Word. FAIL, dang it.
 
clevin said:
I tried camino, it doesn't work neither.

its probably not a format problem, but it IS a problem happens on clipboard. Its probably a bug. as this guess .
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Problem being is that the link you provided is from 2005-2006. Surely they would have been able to resolve it by now if this is the same bug :-S
 
Someone should report it to Mozilla if not done yet; I rarely do this (copy from browser to Word), but I do occasionally. The result in Firefox on OS X right now is optimally nonsensical -- in my example posted above, even if the formatting could not be preserved, it really was not a paste of the information I highlighted in any proper sense. Most of what was pasted in was from other parts of the page!
 
mkrishnan said:
in my example posted above, even if the formatting could not be preserved, it really was not a paste of the information I highlighted in any proper sense. Most of what was pasted in was from other parts of the page!
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No, those ARE what you selected, firefox just uses atl text of pics to replace where the pics are.
 
MacDawg said:
Got it, that makes sense now... but SeaMonkey and Flock?
Not exactly the norm :eek:

How do you adjust for the gamma differences between the Mac and PC?
Just curious

Sorry, we are NOT bringing the Fail Thread back just yet :rolleyes:


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Gamma differences, huh?

Ok, for what it's worth and if anyone cares: Use Firefox in Windows to copy and paste to Windows Word, save the doc (in compatibility mode if using 2007) then open it in Mac Word. Then you can copy and paste till your heart's content! As for me, I'm done jumping through hoops!;)
 
mkrishnan said:
Most probably Firefox. Copy and paste works pretty flawlessly between most other OS X programs. But basically at this point, you're going to have to live with it and use one of the workarounds discussed above.
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As far as I can tell, there are only 2 work-arounds (correct me if I am wrong please):
1) Use Safari (kinda defeats the purpose of having Firefox if I need to switch to Safari when copy/pasting)
2) Use parallels to copy from Windows Firefox to Windows Word, Save the document, and then open it in Mac Word (don't have parallels, and its too long and involved).

Ah well.

Cheers,
Chris
 
higgalls said:
As far as I can tell, there are only 2 work-arounds (correct me if I am wrong please):
1) Use Safari (kinda defeats the purpose of having Firefox if I need to switch to Safari when copy/pasting)
2) Use parallels to copy from Windows Firefox to Windows Word, Save the document, and then open it in Mac Word (don't have parallels, and its too long and involved).

Ah well.

Cheers,
Chris
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3) https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/5669603/
 
After installing Firefox 3, I found that not only has Firefox lost the ability to copy formatted text, but also Thunderbird has lost the ability to either copy or paste formatted text. All other applications that I've tried appear to work just fine.

I can understand Firefox somehow being broken, but I can't understand how it could have affected Thunderbird, at least not without affecting all other applications too.

The same versions of Firefox and Thunderbird work just fine on Windows XP.

I tried removing both applications along with every possible file I could find for Firefox and most files for Thunderbird (I kept the mail database, user info, and stuff). I then reinstalled both applications. No change.

Firefox 3.0
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
Mac OS X 10.5.3
 
I just got a Mac, and this problem is really annoying me. I did some looking into, and I found the bug: 79864. At the top it looks like this is describing a different issue, but if you scroll further to the bottom you can see that this is the same bug. Some of the issues that have been marked as duplicates of this one describe the bug more clearly.

Edit: Bug ID 428096 also seems to be related to this.
 
In addition to Bug 428096, there are also Bug 437851, Bug 439623, Bug 442510, Bug 418606, Bug 440997, and probably more. The entries on some of these indicate that not only was the problem known before Firefox 3 (with Gecko 1.9) shipped, but a fix had been identified and tested. But it was decided that this was too unimportant -- some claimed it was a request for an enhancement, not a bug -- to delay the release by however much time it would take to fully test that the fix didn't break anything.

The only good news is that at least it looks likely that the fix will go into Gecko 1.9.0.1 and therefore into Firefox 3.1. But, none of this is committed yet.
 
Jiraffe said:
The only good news is that at least it looks likely that the fix will go into Gecko 1.9.0.1 and therefore into Firefox 3.1. But, none of this is committed yet.
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But how long do you think it will take for Firefox 3.1 concidering 3.0 has only just been released? It might be a while :S
 
higgalls said:
But how long do you think it will take for Firefox 3.1 concidering 3.0 has only just been released? It might be a while
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Last I read, Firefox 3.1 looked like it might get released Q1 2009. But, there is no commitment on this, and no official schedule that I know of. I agree that it is discouraging. The only way I've been able to keep using Firefox and Thunderbird is by using the Extended Copy Menu extension with Firefox and pasting HTML into Thunderbird via the Insert HTML menu item.
 
Jiraffe said:
Last I read, Firefox 3.1 looked like it might get released Q1 2009. But, there is no commitment on this, and no official schedule that I know of. I agree that it is discouraging. The only way I've been able to keep using Firefox and Thunderbird is by using the Extended Copy Menu extension with Firefox and pasting HTML into Thunderbird via the Insert HTML menu item.
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Q1 2009? Are you serious? That is pretty bad for such a big problem to be in Firefox and probably at least 6 months until it will be fixed. Hopefully it does end up being sooner, but by then Safari will be much better and I probably will have switched over to it. Man that sucks.
 
I created a bugzilla account just to vote for all those bug IDs. I hope this will speed it up. In the mean time I'm going to have to rewrite the image tags on my site so they'll work if I use that extended copy extension.

Is there any chance that someone would be able to make extensions for Firefox and Thunderbird that integrate the work done so far?
 
clevin said:
no, not all formatting, simple ones like list are there in some way.

If its very important, you can use addons like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4554 extended copy menu and choose to copy HTMLs then paste to word. afterwards just save the file as *.html..

Not as simple as I would like, but not impossible.:eek:
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1. I can't believe that this bug hasn't been addressed by now!
2. This addon is useless IMHO. View->Page Source, Select all, copy does the same thing. This addon would actually be useful if it presented the formatted content properly to other applications, so that it actually pasted the formatted, marked up content, and not the source HTML code.:mad:
 
I did not know about the Safari trick...but I can copy and paste from mac firefox to google docs with the formatting, but can not do it to mac word unless I use Safari.

I also have trouble checking my hotmail account using mac firefox.

However, I have had trouble saving google docs in mac firefox :((

so I guess the best option is to just use Safari.../
 
Have you tried selecting "styled text" under the "paste special" menu item?
 
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