David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
I HATE the fact that the new browsers and office suites try to think for you but end up totally screwing up functionality. Today with documents/spreadsheets being created from multiple web-based sources, every time I go to copy something from the web and then paste it into a document, even with the select/middle-mouse (select buffer), it pastes the damn source format of the web page totally borking the document I'm working on. Libre office is the absolute worst about this, OO a bit better, but still plagued by it, now firefox is basically useless as a source for document creation.
In firefox, if I select anything and then middle-mouse paste using the select buffer, the damn formatting comes along too. How in the heck do I tell it to stop this crap?
I paste it into office, then copy it, Ctrl-Z, then reinsert with paste special.
If I use the copy buffer, then I can select the text, use ctrl+c and then use ctrl+shift+v and choose 'unformatted text', but so "the hell much" for efficiency.
I guess I don't do it often enough to worry much about the latter.
That requires a 'select' and then an additional ctrl+c to copy, then a ctrl+shift+v to bring up the 'paste special dialog' and then a select of 'unformatted text' just to paste WHAT USED TO BE a simple efficient 'select/middle-mouse' (done).
What gives? Surely the developers are not so stupid as to believe every user wants to paste size 64 red text into a spreadsheet and not even leave a simple way to disable the format copy so you can still use the select buffer to get work done.
IIRC, it's not exactly new - I'm using FF 7.0 and I haven't noticed any such change in behaviour. Sorry I can't really answer your question. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org