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I would love a browser, or extension that would prevent sites from hijacking or munging my clipboard.

It's infuriating that a page can dictate what gets placed in my clipboard against my will.

There's a setting in about:config to turn it off. The problem is that it messes up copying text in some tools like Google Docs and Sheets. Even if you turn it off Google hijacks the shortcut keys and right click. For some reason selecting Copy from the Edit menu doesn't work either.

Do you know what the option is called?

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

I use Firefox and I've never noticed this. On Google Docs, when you use the copy menu, it suggests that you use the keystroke combination, making me think it's unable to copy via JS. I haven't tested it specifically but I think FF already does this.

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