Cut/Paste in Firefox with CMS 5.0 Upgrade

Firefox, as a web browser, has protections in place to make sure that web scripts cannot access your Cut and Paste functions without permission.  This helps protect your personal computer from damaging viruses, keyloggers, and so forth.

In order to allow CMS 5.0 to cut and paste smoothly in Firefox, you need to follow the following directions.

1. Quit Firefox. If you have Quick Launch running (in Windows, an icon in the toolbar), quit that too.
2. Find your Firefox profile directory. On Windows, this is often located in

   C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<one folder>.
   (See also editing configuration files for more info on locating your profile folder.)

3. Open the user.js file from that directory in a text editor. If there's no user.js file, create one.

4. Add these lines to user.js:

    user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");
    user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://cms.skidmore.edu/ https://cmsauthor.skidmore.edu/");
    user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
    user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess"); 

5. Save the file, and restart Firefox. The Clipboard buttons should now function.

Note: The preference is site as well as protocol specific. For example

 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://www.mozilla.org") 

is not the same as

 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "https://www.mozilla.org") 

(the first is http and the second is https)

If you want to allow multiple urls to access the Paste operation, separate the urls with a space. For example:

 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://www.mozilla.org https://www.mozilla.org") 

For more information about security policies, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html.