Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight text in
a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed out. However, if
I then view the page in another browser (Opera usually) it's available. What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight text in
a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed out. However, if
I then view the page in another browser (Opera usually) it's available.
What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
See if this helps:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-element-s-text/
There have been times when there was text that I wanted to copy (to
paste elsewhere), like just an e-mail address or phone number, but the
ahole web designers decided nothing could be copied despite they were presenting content that was supposed to allow contact. This add-on has helped thwart their stupidity. In addition, sometimes you cannot find a
good spot to start dragging the mouse over text. Instead everywhere
around the text is clickable obviating the down-click to start selecting
the text string. For example, while I can sometimes manage to find a non-clickable region near a search entry at Youtube, it may not be a
spot that then lets me drag the mouse over the text that I want to copy.
For example, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cutest+kitten
shows several hits, and I might find a spot to the right of the
description panel to start dragging, but it's easier to right-click on
the text in the description panel, and right-click to use "Copy text of element".
There have been times, however, when I've had to right-click to Inspect
an element in the web doc to copy text from the HTML code. Alas,
sometimes CSS is so ridiculously heavily used that the element's content cannot be seen unless you dive into the CSS source, and I'm not wasting
that much time on a deliberately obstinate overly coded web doc.
Some web docs are deliberately coded to block right-clicking on
anything. Those disable Javascript on-hover events, so disabling
Javascript might work, too, but when you refresh the page the server
might decide not to deliver the same content.
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight text in
a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed out. However, if
I then view the page in another browser (Opera usually) it's available. What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight text in a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed out. However, if I then view the page in another browser (Opera usually) it's available.
What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Ed
a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed out. However, if
I then view the page in another browser (Opera usually) it's available. >What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Ed
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K-Meleon 75.1 (2015-09-19)[end quoted excerpt]
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/files/latest/download (K-Meleon75.1.exe / 25.3 MB)
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2. OffByone Portable Internet Browser
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Text Grab 4.5.1https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
v4.5.1 Latest(Text-Grab-Self-Contained-2024-08-25.zip / 87.4 MB)
@TheJoeFin TheJoeFin released this 25 Aug 23:26
v4.5.1
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Bug fixes
Fix panning of selection in the Full-Screen Grab not respecting DPI,
thanks @ZGGSONG for the PR
Fix Grab Frame jumping when clicking on a Word Border
Add more common letter number confusions, 5 / S, 8 / B
Improve performance of "Delete All" and "Replace All" methods in Edit
Text Windows Find/Replace Window
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.5.1/Text-Grab-Self-Contained-2024-08-25.zip
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight
text in a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed
out. However, if I then view the page in another browser (Opera
usually) it's available. What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight
text in a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed
out. However, if I then view the page in another browser (Opera
usually) it's available. What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Try viewing the page in Reader View (F9). That blocks most scripting on
the page and may turn off whatever is built into the page to discourage >copying text.
On 27 Aug 2024, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10:
Recently I've been seeing lots of situations wherein I highlight
text in a webpage for copying, right click, but copy is greyed
out. However, if I then view the page in another browser (Opera
usually) it's available. What's changed? Me locally or Firefox?
Try viewing the page in Reader View (F9). That blocks most scripting on
the page and may turn off whatever is built into the page to discourage copying text.
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