1177575 - Implement unprivileged execCommand("copy") and execCommand("cut")

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Alan Tam]

Attachment: clipboard-execCommand.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Chrome 43 decides that allowing the website to pollute your clipboard inside _any_ DOM event handler is no longer a concern. Can Firefox reconsider the policy to allow any website to do programmatically cut/copy text to clipboard?

http://codetheory.in/javascript-copy-to-clipboard-without-flash-using-cut-and-copy-commands-with-document-execcommand/

Test case attached.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Chen ([e-mail])]

I think Bug 1012662 has already fixed this. You can try your test on Nightly. It works! :)

Comment 2

[Mihai Boldan, Desktop QA [:mboldan]]

I was able to reproduce the issue on Mac OS X 10.10.4 using Firefox 38.0 (20150429135941) and the str from Comment 0.

The issue is no longer reproducible on Mac OS X 10.10.4 and Windows 10 x86 using latest Nightly 44.0a1 (20151008030232) and below, so it seems that this has been indeed fixed by Bug 1012662.