Firefox 1.5.0.2

[Carl_Padrez]

My primary browser is IE. I'm using Firefox as a secondary one and it has performed fine since I installed it, months ago,.... till today when, without any noticeable reason, whenever I copy something from any material (a newspaper page, for instance) displayed by Firefox and try to paste it in an Outlook message text or in a Word document, what I got pasted is the last material copied before entering Firefox. That is, nothing was copied from the newspaper page displayed by Firefox.

If I select the full URL from the Firefox URL's window and use the 'cut' command, the URL disappears, but when I try to paste it elsewhere I also got the last material copied before entering Firefox. The 'copy' command does not work within Firefox.

However, If I do the same using IE, it works perfectly.

I uninstalled Firefox, asked for complete deletion of related files, deleted the Program Files Mozilla folder manually, restarted my PC and installed a Firefox fresh copy,.. and got two surprises:
1) When I open Firefox I got same tabs than before (what happened with the 'delete all related files'  command?);  
2) The copy&paste problem is still the same.

Any ideas on how to solve that,... other than forget about Firefox?

[GX1_Man]

After you uninstall,rebootandrun ccleaner, then reinstall (www.ccleaner.com but be sure to uncheck the "I want Yahoo Toolbar" box.)

[Rob Pomeroy]

The lingering files sound to me like they are related to SessionSaver.  Had you installed that extension?

I have heard of problems with the latest Firefox related to cut and paste.  Presumably that will be fixed in a hurry.

[Carl_Padrez]

No, as far as I recall I didn't install SessionSaver.

Last night I installed Firefox 1.5.0.2 in a nother PC whose only browser is IE. The installation was fine but from the very beginning Firefox presented the same copy&paste problem. Even more, when I decided to shut off that PC I was asked to wait because some updating was taking place and the PC will shut off automatically awhen done.  Well, I trusted that and went to bed.... to find this morning the PC in the same place and routine and left it last night. What was new in it? Firefox; nothing else.

I have tried several wasy in my main PC (installing a previous Firefox version, uninstall Google Desktop Search, uninstall Google Updater, etc.) but problem is still there.

[infoseeker]

i got the same problem several weeks ago, and i posted in this forum and other forums also and i got also the same response---
Uninstall and reinstall.
CTRL+C CTRL+V sometimes working but most of the time not working
and this is what i got also in other website "its a bug"
and i know FF knows it very well and until now they cannot fix it (i dont know why)

what i make is, i transfer to OPERA and its doing fine for me (and i think you try also OPERA)

[Carl_Padrez]

Well, since FF hasn't fixed the problem yet I installed Opera following Infoseeker's advice, and I got a pleasant surprise. I don't think Opera is faster or easier than FF but has several interesting features FF has not.  I have to continue exploring Opera but I suspect it'll become my primary browser.