Copying/Pasting multiple lines of text into facebook w/ Firefox 34.0.5 makes line breaks/chops up text. It happens on multiple PCs with diff. OS's. Any fixes?
This has been happening to me ever since the update to the lastest version of FF. Previous versions were fine. Whenever I copy text more than a line or two in length and then paste it, the pasted text will be randomly chopped up , making line breaks every other line or so. It is the strangest thing. I have this happen on multiple computers, each with a different Operating System (WIndows Vista, Windows 8) and copy/pasting is fine in IE, so it is definitely an issue with FF, and not with the site. I'm going to try to Upload a comparison image for an example. Is there a fix for this? If not, I may try to go back to the previous version and turn off updates to keep the new one from reupdating. Cheers.
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From that example, it's hard to tell what's happening. Maybe there were line breaks in the original source and IE re-wraps while Firefox keeps the breaks?? (Or should I say, Facebook's script may behave differently in different browsers based on their different text-handling capabilities.)
Does the original source application that you copy from make any difference?
jscher2000 said
Does the original source application that you copy from make any difference?
Thank you for asking/responding. The answer is yes and no. I just tested out various sources to see what would happen. When I copy text from a Open Office text file, for instance, the text will paste fine in both the New Post dialogue box, as well as the comment dialogue box attached to posts.
Other sources, like websites, pdf files, etc... I get various results. I'm guessing that's due to the formatting of the text of those sources. 50% of the time copy/paste will work for the new post box (from other sources) , but 99% of the time, it won't work at all for the comment box, no matter the source, except for Open Office, which must have pretty universal text formatting.
It is extra work, but keeping an OpenOffice document (or Notepad document) open for intermediate pasting and re-copying might be a faster workaround than cleaning up the paste on FB.
But at this point I don't know of a true solution (I rarely use FB, so I'm not personally familiar with whether this is a recent change).
jscher2000 said
It is extra work, but keeping an OpenOffice document (or Notepad document) open for intermediate pasting and re-copying might be a faster workaround than cleaning up the paste on FB.
Thanks! I was thinking of doing that myself, now that I know that office is a good source. the only problem is if i am copying from facebook, which is what happens much of the time, then it's still going to happen when pasting it to the office program. oh well. I do appreciate the advice though. cheers!