On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:17:02 +0000 Damyan Ivanov wrote: [...] > -=| Francesco Poli, 02.09.2018 19:38:38 +0200 |=- [...] > > I cannot understand how to make the automatic paste happen. > > > > If I select something and then hit [Ctrl+C], I still have to: > > > > * click on the Debian button in order to get a menu > > * paste the copied selection with [Ctrl+V] into the text field > > * click or right-click on one of the options > > It is supposed to work like this (and works like this for me, under > GNOME/sid): > > * You select and copy e.g. a bug number > * Click on the Swirl in the browser (tried firefox and firefox-esr > from sid) > - an automatic paste into the text input should happen
The automatic paste fails to work for me... > * click or middle-click (for opening in a new tab) on some of the > links in the window > > > This looks even slower than the other, X-clipboard-based procedure > > It is still slower, but at least there should not be any need to paste > via Ctrl+V > > If the automated pasting does not work, I am not sure what the > extension can do - it only has access to the API, and if that works > here, maybe there is some difference in your environment. Maybe this is due to the fact that I am using firefox-esr/52.9.0esr-1 on Debian testing... I don't know, but I cannot upgrade to firefox-esr/60.2.1esr-1 from Debian unstable, until some extensions get ported to webext and/or replaced by webext ones included in Debian... [...] > > It would be great, if, at least, the extension could read the X > > clipboard, without using the text field. > > If this could be implemented, the text field could be completely > > removed and the user could select some text and then: > > > > * click on the Debian button > > * click or right-click on one of the options > > > > It would still require twice as many clicks as the pre-webext version, > > but it could be considered acceptable... > > I'd like to achieve this too :) > I have opened a ticket in bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494266 Thanks a lot: I really hope the API will soon be enhanced! Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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