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Librewolf cut and paste problem

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Librewolf cut and paste problem

#1 Post by Bulkley »

The Librewolf browser is very good but it has a problem with cut and paste. This may or may not be an appimage problem. There is some chatter about it on-line but no fix so far. Librewolf FAQ doesn't mention it. Has anyone else here run into it?

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Re: Librewolf cut and paste problem

#2 Post by cds60601 »

You will create and populate a file called librewolf.overrides.cfg that will reside in the .librewolf directory.
You will need to set your custom confis in there. This would include the ability of copy/paste.

I went through this when I wanted to run librewolf. What I can post, is what I used.

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// prevent websites from storing session data like cookies and forms, increase time between session saves
defaultPref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level", 4);

// mouse and input
// defaultPref("clipboard.autocopy", true); // disable autocopy to clibpboard
In short, the above allows some "breakage" of the librewolf security by saving session cookies (like remembering settings of a website, etc) and allows me to use copy/paste.
In not sure I fully understand that section called mouse and input but I have not further tested to remove the modified entry for copy/paste. I left it alone.

Your mileage will vary - but I suggest searching based on the file name librewolf.overrides.cfg

UPDATE: I commented out the mouse and input section and still used copy/paste. I have made that modification above.
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Re: Librewolf cut and paste problem

#3 Post by Bulkley »

Thanks, cds60601. I haven't been able to make it work yet but the librewolf.overrides.cfg is a good place to start.

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Re: Librewolf cut and paste problem

#4 Post by kedaha »

I got interested in librewolf recently after reading a forum topic and first I installed it from FlatPak but then I found the fonts were a bit dim and not easy to read. I also encountered the cut and paste problem. So I removed it and installed it by adding the upstream repository and now it's just like using my usual firefox-esr.
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