Hello, if you are copying the raw paste data, you will have to add the returns yourself, and it should work as expected. This goes for all web browsers -- not just Firefox.

No, if I try microsoft's or google's competition browsers i do get the expected result.

You can try for yourself here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1173862256

Strange, try copying and pasting again but paste the raw data into a pastebin and copy from there.

Nope, doesn't work either, if I look with the 'inspector' function it's already stripped of returns there, so if I paste into pastebin it's the same soup as it is in a notepad file. I don't get why it stopped working since 57.0, it used to work before.

File a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org -- Once there you will need to create an account. When registered, please see the documentation for bug filing to help get you started.

Okay, I filed a bug .

thanks

If my response helped you, mark as solution.

Try to use View Selection Source in the right-click context menu of the selected text. You can also use the Inspector to add <pre>TEXT</pre> tags around the text (right-click: Edit as HTML).

'View selection source' worked! I could copy it normally then. Same when edit as html is used in inspector.

I marked your answer as a solution, but I still don't understand why I should be this complicated. It used to work with a simple select/copy/paste action, as it does in any other browser I tested except the firefox 57.0(.1) browsers.

It has to do with what Firefox places on the clipboard.

If I use the text/html flavor on the clipboard then it works and it preserves the linefeed characters.

@echo off
cls
rem *** main script starts, set window title ***
rem --------------------------------------------

If I use text/unicode flavor on the clipboard then it doesn't work.

@echo off cls rem *** main script starts, set window title *** rem --------------------------------------------

Text/unicode seems to place whitespace on the clipboard formatted as HTML and converts linefeed to spaces (a <br> would be converted to a linefeed).

Yeah, I've found that out too now. I still don't get why firefox 57 would handle this different from other browsers and i's own predecessors.

If this is how it should be, then I kind of expect an option where I right-click to copy, like 'copy as html' and 'copy as unicode'. Like it is now, I feel it's over complicated to get the desired result. Maybe not for me but for an average user it is.

Anyway thanks to all trying and explaining what's going on!