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How can I prevent Firefox from cleaning my clipboard at exit (exit or closing firefox) ?

EmperorShadow
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How can I prevent Firefox from cleaning my clipboard at exit (exit or closing firefox) ? I am using FF 9.0.1 and the problem start from FF 5.0

How can I prevent Firefox from cleaning my clipboard at exit (exit or closing firefox) ? I am using FF 9.0.1 and the problem start from FF 5.0

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You can't prevent that.
If you've placed data on the clipboard in Firefox then you need to paste that data in the other program, if that is your intention, before closing Firefox.

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cor-el
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You can't prevent that.
If you've placed data on the clipboard in Firefox then you need to paste that data in the other program, if that is your intention, before closing Firefox.

EmperorShadow
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Thank u but I knew that but I want a real answer to solve this problem because no need to paste the data on other program if I want to paste it again on FF after restart it.