Firefox 59, unable to copy & paste from FPM2

atelszewski · 03-16-2018, 09:15 AM

Hi,

I'm using Figaro's Password Manager 2 for storing passwords.
Since Firefox 59, user/pass copied within FPM2 cannot be pasted into Firefox.
I can copy from FPM2, to say Kate (text editor) and then copy from Kate to Firefox.

Anybody experiencing something similar?

I'm on Slackware 14.2 with my own compilation of Firefox (SlackBuild from -current).

Thanks!

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

keefaz · 03-17-2018, 11:10 AM

I am experiencing something similar, I can not copy paste from rxvt terminal window although firefox accepts paste from xfce terminal and urxvt. Playing with some locale value (LANG etc) did not help

orbea · 03-17-2018, 11:26 AM

Here are a few things that you can try.

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1.../?search=xclip

xclip makes it easy to put passwords into the x11 clipboard for pasting. Using tpm for example:

Code:

tpm show foo/bar | tr -d '\n' | xclip

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...rch=autocutsel

autocutsel can be used to unify your clipboards and allow for sloppy copy/paste.

For example I have the following in ~/.xinitrc.

Code:

autocutsel -fork &
autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &

And then I can just highlight some text with the mouse and it will be automatically added to my clipboard ready to be pasted just about anywhere. The downside is that its easy to unintentionally lose the contents of your clipboard by highlighting new text.

atelszewski · 03-17-2018, 03:16 PM

Hi,

@orbea You're speaking about hacks ;-)
I'm more interested in finding out what broke.

@keefaz I'm able to paste text in FF from FPM2 if I select the needed text in FPM2.
Then I can paste the text with the middle mouse button.
I presume the standard X selection protocol goes into play.

But that's not the way to go, because I actually have to open the user/pass entry in edit mode
and select and paste what I need.

The way FPM2 works (i.e. is configured on my machine) is than it opens destination web page
by double-clicking on the entry and then you have user under right button and password under
middle button.

I think the latest FF changed something, because it used to work fine.
It works fine for example with Pale Moon.

Although I'm not entirely sure the blame goes on FF, because I can paste the text fine
from other applications.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski