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Hellcloud

Autocopy functionality hasn't worked since Quantum launched and I can't find a solution.

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Before the launch of Quantum I never used the about:config configuration for clipboard.autocopy, opting to use an addon, however since the update disabled legacy addons I figured I'd just turn on autocopy in about:Config, but it doesn't work. Anyone by chance have a solution for this?

Also does anyone know how to make it so middle click actually pastes over what is highlighted instead of appending it to the end of the highlighted text?

Posted Dec 9, 2017, 6:07 PM UTC

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wick0•

I use this extension for searching the selected text on several search engines, but it also has an autocopy option. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

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HellcloudOP•

Thanks for the link, but its more of a bandage than an actual fix I'm looking for.

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-Me_NotSure•

this addon does it fine
this one does it different and in the description recommends other addons as well, including the first one for normal autocopy.
it also tells you how to get middle click paste: config-> "middlemouse.paste" True

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HellcloudOP•

Alright I got the first addon to work without issue finally. Thanks for the link.

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HellcloudOP•

I've already tried both of those add-ons and neither seems to work. As for my middle click paste issue, it's not that it doesn't work it's that it appends to highlighted text instead of replacing.

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-Me_NotSure•

the first one works fine here. make sure there's no conflicting addon running. also try restarting browser, although that's not needed. pasting from middle click seems to only work that way unfortunately.

btw forgot to mention why that autocopy in config doesn't work, apparently it only works on unix-like systems.

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HellcloudOP•

Interesting, I had read that autocopy is set true by default for Unix systems to match system wide behavior, but that it could be enabled on windows. I'll try your other solutions when I get back to my desktop though. Thanks.

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