* David C. Rankin
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'm working on a OO spreadsheet and I'm trying to select/paste model numbers into a column with a spreadsheet font of Sans 9. There is NO way I can find to select/paste into the spreadsheet from firefox without the format being screwed up. I don't want a 64 pt. red font in my spreadsheet.
I can can select in firefox by dragging the mouse and paste in oocalc with <ctrl><v> or <right-click> and paste from drop-down menu and get only text. <center-mouse-button> pastes html-formatted text 12.1 x86_64 MozillaFirefox-7.0.1-2.1.2.x86_64 libreoffice-3.4.2.6-9.12.x86_64 note: same action observed in 11.4 for last *several* versions of firefox. note2: in 12.1 this action is not observed in seamonkey or chromium completely unnecessary and derogatory comment>
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.
</rant> no, abusive comment. You can rant w/o being abusive.
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