Open Bug 1329754 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Consider offering "cut" "copy" and "paste" actions on default HTML context menu

Categories

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Menus
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: nika, Unassigned)

References

Details

These actions would normally have no effect, however due to the clipboard events JS can respond to one of these actions on an arbitrary element. It _might_ be nice to expose these actions on the default context menu for that reason.
So when are cut/copy/paste enabled in the command level?
This is possibly toolkit/browser bug, or something to do in CommandDispatcher handling.
Component: DOM: Events → DOM
We used to have some (all?) of these commands in the context menu and the UX team removed them during the context menu revamp a while ago.  I think the reason was that they weren't commonly used?  Anyways, this is probably a browser bug.
Component: DOM → Menus
Product: Core → Firefox
(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug] from comment #1)
> So when are cut/copy/paste enabled in the command level?
> This is possibly toolkit/browser bug, or something to do in
> CommandDispatcher handling.

These events are always enabled at the command level in HTML documents as of bug 1317322, they just aren't listed in the context menu when normally they would have no effect.

I agree that this should have been filed in Firefox.
Severity: normal → S3
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.