Is there a keyboard shortcut in Firefox to paste the Unix "primary selection" clipboard, not the Firefox one?

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Mar 15, 20263682 views

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I run Linux, and am used to selecting text with the mouse to copy and pressing Shift+Insert to paste. (This uses an alternate clipboard known as the "Primary Selection".) This seems to work in every application besides Firefox. Firefox uses a different clipboard, where Ctrl+C copies and Ctrl+V past…

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You can bind the following command to a key, it should make your firefox selection available to other programs: and vice versa

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