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So Outlook is refusing to let me right click and past again. I thought i solved this problem a few years ago by setting dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItem dom.events.asyncClipboard.readText dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to True in about:config. And sure enough those settings are still set to True so why is Outlook now telling me it can't access my clipboard again?

So Outlook is refusing to let me right click and past again. I thought i solved this problem a few years ago by setting dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItem dom.events.asyncClipboard.readText dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to True in about:config. And sure enough those settings are still set to True so why is Outlook now telling me it can't access my clipboard again?

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Sin Shadow Fox said

So Outlook is refusing to let me right click and past again.

I still have Win7, let me see if I can replicate. Provide the exact steps to replicate your issue.

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jonzn4SUSE said

Sin Shadow Fox said

So Outlook is refusing to let me right click and past again.

I still have Win7, let me see if I can replicate. Provide the exact steps to replicate your issue.

Navigate to the outlook website ( https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/ ). Start a new email. Right click in the message body area and paste whatever is in your clipboard.

Modified by Sin Shadow Fox

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I copied from this forum and paste it in hotmail and works for me. see screenshot What security software are you running?

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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Hello

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1522790

You can try, the preference, dom.event.contextmenu.enabled value false.

1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term dom.event.contextmenu.enabled

Modified by Agent virtuel

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jonzn4SUSE said

I copied from this forum and paste it in hotmail and works for me. see screenshot What security software are you running?

Sorry, just comparing.

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Agent virtuel said

Hello https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1522790 You can try, the preference, dom.event.contextmenu.enabled value false. 1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term dom.event.contextmenu.enabled

Ok, i made the change that you suggested. It seems that both outlook's context menu and my computer's context menu pops up now. When i use my computer's paste, it works, but using outlooks pastes still doesn't. It's a nice working workaround but the core problem, whatever it is, still seem to be present. Thanks for the workaround though.

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Sin Shadow Fox said

jonzn4SUSE said

I copied from this forum and paste it in hotmail and works for me. see screenshot What security software are you running?

Sorry, just comparing.

Now we see what you mean. Yes, I saw that pop-up, but just hit ok.

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Agent virtuel said

Hello https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1522790 You can try, the preference, dom.event.contextmenu.enabled value false. 1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term dom.event.contextmenu.enabled

Ok, this is now causing my PC's context menu to pop up everywhere else so it no longer a viable workaround.

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Hello

You can visit, advanced search. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=advanced

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla If you wish, you can send your comment, file a bug report.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001793 dom.event.contextmenu.enabled, other impact.

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