Can't paste into browser

[Werner Schram]

Hi Ken,

Ken wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:24:04 +0000, Ken wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:33:35 +0200, Ian Coetzee wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 17/12/2009 03:57, Ken wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I use a program to store my passwords, but I can't seem to paste them
>>>> into all the pages in the browser.  For instance, if I go to guru.com
>>>> and try to paste into their sign in page, I can't.  I've tried this
>>>> with both firefox and epiphany and it just doesn't work.  If I open
>>>> gedit I have no problems pasting into there.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what is going on here?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What are you using to paste, "right click > paste", "<Ctrl>+<v>",
>>> "<Shift>+<Insert>"? If you try one of the others, does it work? If you
>>> "right click > paste" is the paste button greyed out?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Ian
>>>       
>> Right click doesn't bring up a menu.  I've tried pasting using center
>> click and using cntrl-v.  I've also tried pasting using the menu.  Paste
>> is not grayed out.  It just doesn't work.
>>
>> Can you try pasting into the password prompt on guru.com and see if it
>> works?  Does it work for you?  Maybe there is just some weirdness in the
>> site that is tickling a bug in the browser?
>>
>> Thanks
>>     
>
> Just one more note.  Everything works fine in Opera, just not in Firefox 
> or Epiphany.
>   
The login box of the guru.com site uses some tricks to prevent you from 
pasting values in the password field. If you look up the password 
control at the source of te page, you see that it includes: 
"onpaste="return false" oncontextmenu="return false"". I'm not sure why 
they would do that, but they do. I don't know why opera handles this 
differently, possibly they have a different interpretation of the 
onpaste tag.

Regards,
Werner