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Cut and paste function does not work on Google docs?

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Anyone else have this problem? Have the latest Firefox update, and tried some cut and paste addon's... but not luck.

Anyone else have this problem? Have the latest Firefox update, and tried some cut and paste addon's... but not luck.

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This goes back a long way, nothing on this version of Firefox but basically Google will not let you. It wants you to use chrome and has written a work around in Chrome to Copy/Paste, Cut and paste. Nothing changed since this article.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance

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Do you mean buttons supplied by the page, or the common keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+c copy, Ctrl+v paste), or both?

I can do the keyboard short cuts, but not the regular mouse control right click to cut and paste which I prefer.... I can do it with Chrome and Opera but not Firefox? Thanks

Chosen Solution

This goes back a long way, nothing on this version of Firefox but basically Google will not let you. It wants you to use chrome and has written a work around in Chrome to Copy/Paste, Cut and paste. Nothing changed since this article.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance

In about:config, set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled back to true. It solved all issues for me with FB and GoogleDocs. See previous discussion.

This worked for me:

"In about:config, set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled back to true. It solved all issues for me with FB and GoogleDocs. See previous discussion."