Firefox 22 released

Re:Firefox 22 released by mh- on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:05AM (#5946487)

No, not unless you initiate a paste operation manually (literally, as in by hitting ctrl-v or etc.)

This is one of the ways that pasting images from your clipboard into, say, an image hosting site can work.

I had a difficult time finding fuller explanations of the capabilities - mostly because there isn't a standard API across browsers yet - but here[1] are the relevant Safari docs.

There's also a working draft[2] from the W3C for a standardized API.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleAp...

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/

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Re:Firefox 22 released by giorgosts on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:29AM (#5946661)

Thanks, it's just brought back memories of IE6 where a website could arbitrarily read user clipboard without notice

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Re:Firefox 22 released by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:37AM (#5946710)

What?! Are all those companies still using IE6 (and, consequently, holding back progress for the rest of us) aware of this massive security hole?

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Re:Firefox 22 released by vidarh on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:04PM (#5947340)

Hey, it's a feature. We can "fund" the time spent on IE6 workarounds by selling data obtained from paste buffers.

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Re:Firefox 22 released by jonknee on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:10PM (#5946919)

Companies using IE 6 have many more security problems than clipboard access.

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Re:Firefox 22 released by Drakim on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:13PM (#5946938)

At this point of time IE6 is a wide open door, something as trivial as reading your paste isn't that big of a deal in comparison.

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