Enable Java Script
Enable Java Script
By Nicholas Miller
7/6/14 10:17 AM
Copy and paste keyboard shortcuts are beautiful gifts from the gods, and any website that
blocks such an offering can burn in hell. But really, Cmd+C and Cmd+V (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
for Windows folks) are second nature to most of us, so it's very frustrating when sites like
PayPal don't let us use them.
Thankfully, if you're a Firefox user, you can permanently enable copy/paste and never have
to deal with this inconvenience again.
For security purposes, many financial and banking sites block your ability to copy/paste. For
example, when I change my password on PayPal and try to paste my new password into the
"re-enter" box, PayPal flashes a warning saying, "Please retype your password. Don't copy
and paste it."
Cool, I get it. PayPal wants us to be absolutely positive we know our password. However, if
you're creating strong unbreakable passwords or entering long strings of numbers, it can get
really annoyingreally fast.
There are a number of "secret" Firefox application settings that aren't available to you under
Options or Preferences. Although they're held in the prefs.js and user.js files of Firefox's
package contents, you can easily view them on your browser by typing about:config into the
address bar.
Since modifying these advanced configuration settings could potentially jack up your
browser, Firefox flashes a little warning asking you to promise to be careful. Just proceedI
know what I'm doing.
When you first enter the about:config settings, you'll notice a list of hundreds of preferences.
Don't risk messing anything up and go straight to the target by searching for
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled in the preferences search bar.
Step 3: Turn the Value to FALSE
As long as that value remains "false," you should never have any issue copying and pasting
long passwords, addresses, account numbers, or anything else that we all hate typing out.