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Comment by Pufferbo

6 days ago

You literally can’t use your mouse to copy/paste in google docs if you’re using Firefox. If that isn’t anticompetitive, I don’t know what is.

As a firefox user, that copy/paste drives me insane, but I think you're making a logic leap here along with assuming the worst. It's very possible (and likely) that there are API deficiencies that break their ability to offer this when overriding the right-click menu. For example, Firefox not allowing javascript in random tabs from writing to the system clipboard.

You can still use Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V (and in fact the UI will (or at least used to) tell you that).

  • JupyterLab also doesn't have copy paste in right click menu. I figured it's probably a security feature (preventing malicious JavaScript from harvesting clipboard content).

It's funny how many "unsupported" browser features suddenly start working if you happen to change your User Agent header...