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Issues pasting text from FireFox

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Recently I switched from Chrome to FireFox as my daily browser. When building flows, I experience some weird behaviour.

 

Pasting text (either plain or with formatting) into some field in actions, most often results in the action showing an error and not able to modify anything anymore.

 

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If pasting does work, most often it does not work properly. Text is pasted on top of already existing text en I am not able to remove or edit the pasted text anymore. Finally, when saving the flow, the same error shows for the action where I pasted the text.

 

Is this a known issue? Or is it just me? Any Workarounds available?

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  • psycrkz1 Profile Picture
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    I have tried the similar steps as yours on FireFox, while it works fine for me.

    Could you please share your repro steps in more specific or can you make sure your FireFox is on the latest version with cache cleared?

  • abm abm Profile Picture
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    Hi @Anonymous 

     

    It could be you have enabled the experimental features turned on.

     

    Try the following: 

     

    Click settings

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    Click View All Power Automate settings

     

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    Make sure experimental features are turned off.

     

     

    Thanks

     

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    Thanx for the suggestion. For testing purposes I have created another FireFox profile with default settings and all data cleared. This profile is working fine so it should be something in my custom FireFox settings. I have now to find out what setting causes this.

     

    Edit: found the following setting causes pasting into flow actions to break:

    dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = true

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    @abmI have tried this but experimental functions already where turned off.

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