Clipboard is empty after I restart Firefox
1. Start Firefox 2. Go to some website 3. Copy some text from the website 4. paste the text into the addressbar to be sure it copyed it 5. close firefox 6. restart firefox 7. try to paste the copied text into the adressbar -> nothing happens the clipboard is empty
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Original Author here:
looks like it is a feature of "Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session"
Is this the way it was intended to be?
No, that is still expected behavior on the Firefox 3.6 branch. Firefox 4.0 won't do that anymore.
Bug 311340 – Clipboard data is lost on exit (Should implement the freedesktop.org specification for clipboard management)
Thank you for the fast reply.
@cor-el That bug is for linux versions of Firefox.
its now a windows firefox bug also its te single most annoying 'feature' firefox has ever had.
Modified by ibanez0r