Happened to me today. I used the DontFuckWithPaste extension and added WhatsApp web to it. Worked then.
However when I then tried to paste an image it didn't work so I had to disable it for that.
An annoying workaround but it's something.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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somewhat very similar happened to me, except for the extension part. I mean, it worked on and off and sometimes image paste and text paste both would work and somtimes only one would work.
It was somewhat related to state of dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
I've never had this problem so can't tell for sure. But have you tried the solution in the very link you shared?
Also had copy/paste not working on some sites. Noticed that dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled was set to false. Set it to true on about:config page, now everything works.
edit 2: It's frustrating an weird, apparently the true or false has no bearing on this, it's just randomly pasting and then not pasting So, to repeat, do you know a way to save my extensions config
I actually didn't bother to read everything. I thought since the chosen solution told me to reset it, I would have to reset it.
Weird, weird, weird
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled is set to true and if it's set to true, I can't paste in whatsapp.
But, if it's set to false, I can paste. Exactly the opposite of the solution works for me.
Extensions either save their settings in the "cloud" or locally.
If you've got Firefox Sync setup, the ones which write to "cloud" will be automatically backed up for you.
Some extensions also offer to export your config to a file so that you can import it later.
It all varies by extension and impossible to tell w/o knowing which ones you're using.
That said, you can always safely experiment using a new profile w/o needing to delete the current one. Create a new profile (launch firefox using firefox -P) and see if copy-paste works properly in there. If yes, then you can add your extensions one by one to the new profile w/o losing your settings.
actually, it's working now, but I might try that when things turn south, again. Thank you btw!
interesting, thank you!
Fix prob available Mon according to employee engaged on it
Wait! you mean to say it would be solved by this Monday?
Oh, I thought it was just my problem. Could a new profile solve this instead of Firefox reset
I am installing a new browser now :'(
brave, hier komme ich
Same happened to me today. I circumvented it with inspect element, just pasting the text there directly.