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Copy and paste quit working. Recently upgraded to Windows 10

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I installed Windows 10 over a week ago and everything seemed ok. Suddenly copy and paste do not work in either Thunderbird or Firefox. For example, I cannot copy words or links into this message. I cannot copy a URL from Firfox and paste it as a link into an email. Copy and paste work in other applications. How can I fix this?

I installed Windows 10 over a week ago and everything seemed ok. Suddenly copy and paste do not work in either Thunderbird or Firefox. For example, I cannot copy words or links into this message. I cannot copy a URL from Firfox and paste it as a link into an email. Copy and paste work in other applications. How can I fix this?

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That is interesting weirdness..... Let us know if that changes.

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lets start with a little trial and error.

if you open notepad and copy and paste some text from it to Thunderbird does paste work? Does the paste from Firefox to notepad work?

Note: Notepad only places basic text on the clipboard. This will suggest if the problem is pasting in general or the format of the data placed on the clipboard.

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Yes, that works. Copying text from a web page displayed on Firefox to paste into an email doesn't work. Copying a URL to paste as a link doesn't work. I just tried copying text and a URL from Microsoft Edge and pasting into Thunderbird. Both worked fine, so I'm thinking the problem is not Thunderbird, but maybe Firefox.

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Just before copying a URL from Edge, the copy/paste to/from Firefox and Thunderbird failed. After copying a URL from Edge and pasting it as a link in Thunderbird, I am now able to do the same from Firefox.

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That is interesting weirdness..... Let us know if that changes.

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Thanks for responding, Matt. So far, so good. It was broken for about 3 days through multiple reboots and shut downs. Somehow copying from a different browser reset something.