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The lack of cut&paste is a severe drawback for me in my online teaching work and obliges me to use Explorer - why do you do this?

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Johj
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Just as I say. I often need to paste parts of files into correspondance with my students. I teach for a large university in the UK. Firefox won't let me do this - I believe for some sort of security reason. 

  So, for my work, I have to use Explorer.  It's very disappointing.  Why do you do this?
Just as I say. I often need to paste parts of files into correspondance with my students. I teach for a large university in the UK. Firefox won't let me do this - I believe for some sort of security reason. So, for my work, I have to use Explorer. It's very disappointing. Why do you do this?

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the-edmeister
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Cut, copy, and paste work fine in Firefox for the vast majority of users. It's your installation that is at fault.


Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Firefox Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode that temporarily turns off hardware acceleration, resets some settings, and disables add-ons (extensions and themes).

If Firefox is open, you can restart in Firefox Safe Mode from the Help menu:

  • Click the menu button New Fx Menu, click Help Help-29 and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled.

If Firefox is not running, you can start Firefox in Safe Mode as follows:

  • On Windows: Hold the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • On Mac: Hold the option key while starting Firefox.
  • On Linux: Quit Firefox, go to your Terminal and run firefox -safe-mode
    (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)

When the Firefox Safe Mode window appears, select "Start in Safe Mode".

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If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, theme, or hardware acceleration. Please follow the steps in the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article to find the cause.

To exit Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help others with the same problem.