521563 - Can't copy/paste from Firefox to Dreamweaver CS3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 501688

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091006 Firefox/3.5.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091006 Firefox/3.5.4

Summary says it all.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  You can do a special paste and copy text only but then you lose all formatting.

Expected Results:  
Copy/paste with formatting.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Sorry, but we need a bit more detail. What are you copying and pasting ( a specific website?), how, where are you putting it in Dreamweaver, etc. Please give the steps as if we don't know a thing about this. :)

Comment 4

[Travis Saling]

I'm running into this same problem between Firefox 3.6 and Dreamweaver CS4. My users will often send me web updates/news via email, which I read in Gmail (so I'm in the browser). I'll copy the text, then attempt to paste it into a web page I've got open for editing in Dreamweaver - but nothing gets pasted.

However if I copy it from Firefox then paste it into a text editor (BBedit in my case), and then copy it from the text editor and paste it into Dreamweaver, the text successfully pastes. So it's not like the copy command is disabled; there's something else going on that interferes with pasting directly into Dreamweaver from Firefox.

I do not have this problem if I'm using Safari instead of Firefox - I can copy from Safari and paste directly into Dreamweaver just fine. So it seems to be related to the way Firefox is working with the clipboard.

FWIW I'm not using any clipboard enhancers or other odd software.