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Why does my right mouse button automattically paste when clicked? The option should be there, it should not paste whatever has been coppied without me clicking

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If I copy something and then put the pointer on a location where pasting is possible (navigation bar for instance) the right mouse just pastes whatever is in there without my clicking on paste. Very annoying and I will quit using the browser if it does is stop. Here is an example. I will misspell the next word and then right click on it to correct and you can see what happens. It will paste whatever I have copied previously and not fix the error. Speling It is also possible to copy text by double-clicking it and holding down the mouse button until the

That is it. All the text after Speling is pasted when I tried to correct. Same thing if I high lighted text and tried to right click to copy....just more pasting of the same thing. Help please.

If I copy something and then put the pointer on a location where pasting is possible (navigation bar for instance) the right mouse just pastes whatever is in there without my clicking on paste. Very annoying and I will quit using the browser if it does is stop. Here is an example. I will misspell the next word and then right click on it to correct and you can see what happens. It will paste whatever I have copied previously and not fix the error. Speling It is also possible to copy text by double-clicking it and holding down the mouse button until the That is it. All the text after Speling is pasted when I tried to correct. Same thing if I high lighted text and tried to right click to copy....just more pasting of the same thing. Help please.

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Another user reported that this is a feature of the FastestFox add-on. Can you check its Options or, if necessary, Disable it and see whether that is the cause in your case?

orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > Extensions category