SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on their site. Try it

Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by SwellJoe on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:33PM (#728773)

Firefox on Linux. No link.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by ajross on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:23PM (#728873)

You also have to copy through the browser's clipboard interface, not the X11 selection. Presumably Javascript is capable of hooking the former, but not the latter.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by SwellJoe on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:45PM (#728916)

Ah, select/middle mouse button click is the one true copy/paste. I would never have occasion to see this happen.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by 10ren on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @12:04AM (#729422)

Still doesn't work, even with using the Edit menu. I setup AdBlock to stop the NYT doing similar (as others have mentioned), and possibly it's blocking this one too.

I feel so isolated from the everyman. The web I see is not the web he sees.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by jrockway on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @08:42PM (#729201)

I'm not even sure how to copy text to the clipboard (with conkeror).

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by ranprieur on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @06:01PM (#728946)

I'm using Seamonkey on Linux, with javascript on, and the page fully loaded. I've tried ctrl-c, right click/copy, and edit/copy from the toolbar. In all cases it copies normally with no link inserted.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by whiskeyjack on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:02PM (#728829)

Worked for me using both Ctrl-C and right-click copy in Firefox in Linux.

Page seems to have to completely load before it works though.

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