1679127 - Option in browser to paste clipboard contents without formatting

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tristan Miller]

Some web applications now "intelligently" process rich text pasted from the clipboard (for example, by preserving the formatting or automatically converting it to markup). In many cases this is exactly what the user wants, but in other cases it is not. Please add to the SeaMonkey browser a command that pastes the clipboard contents as plain, unformatted text. In many other applications (including SeaMonkey's own Composer and Mail & News, IIRC) this can be done with a "Paste without formatting" command that appears in the Edit menu and context menu, and by default is bound to the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select the following text and copy it to the clipboard: My favourite browser is SeaMonkey.
2. Visit some web application that recognizes and processes rich text when pasted into a text area field. An example of this would be Discourse, which automatically renders pasted rich text as Markdown. Paste the clipboard contents into such a text area.

Observed results:

1. The pasted text appears as follows: My _favourite_ browser is [SeaMonkey](https://www.seamonkey-project.org/).

Expected results:

1. There should be some way of pasting the text such that it appears as follows: My favourite browser is SeaMonkey.

Comment 1

[Tristan Miller]

According to Bug 968104 Comment 1 (posted by none other than yours truly, though I had long forgotten about it) Ctrl+Shift+V used to work in SeaMonkey, at least some seven years ago. So the current bug seems to be a regression and/or a duplicate of Bug 968104.