1515122 - RFE: Extend the support of reading the clipboard under SSL via clipboard api

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Charlie Wang]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.80 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox clipboard api (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard), it says "Firefox only supports reading the clipboard in browser extensions, using the "clipboardRead" extension permission."
But in Chrome, the support is beyond browser extensions and the web page can read clipboard under SSL. 
Can we make the same support in Firefox as well to allow clipboard read under SSL outside browser extensions?


Actual results:

Firefox clipboard api does not allow web page to read clipboard and only allow it via browser extension


Expected results:

Firefox should provide the same support as Chrome to allow clipboard read via SSL

Comment 1

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hey Charlie Wang,

Thanks for the suggestion! Will mark it as an enhancement for now and setting a component so the development team can take a look at it.
If this is not the right component, please move it to the right one.
Thanks!