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BUG: Firefox will not copy the coordinates [solved]


rickrich

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Firefox will not copy the coordinates.  This is a problem with puzzles, coordinate projection, etc.

 

It used to work fine until probably 3 or 4 days ago.

 

If you copy, say:

    This is a Premium Member Only cache.

    N 59° 06.738 E 015° 11.538
    UTM: 33V E 511012 N 6552572

You only get:

    This is a Premium Member Only cache.

    UTM: 33V E 511012 N 6552572

 

It works fine on Google Chrome, however.

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5 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said:

If you click the coords, you get (unless California broke that too) a pop-up to enter your own corrected coords.  There, you can select and copy the coords.

 

True, but if you want to copy the corrected coordinates there are no way to do that now. It's not possible to highlight the coordinates any longer.

Works in Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox.

 

Tried in Firefox 71 64 Bit on Windows 10. Both with and without all my add-ons

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Click coords with the right button and select "Ispect Element (Q)"

Open the selected "<button>" tag  from the arrowhead triangle.

Do the same to  the "<strong>" tag on the next line.

Now you should see a "<span>" tag. Right clik it and select "Copy / inner HTML"

Now you have corrected coordinates in your clipboard.

 

As you can see... it is not impossible :D

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17 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said:

If you click the coords, you get (unless California broke that too) a pop-up to enter your own corrected coords.  There, you can select and copy the coords.

 

That's how I always do it, because I may be using my iPhone or who knows what, and I need a way that consistently works.

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17 hours ago, arisoft said:

Click coords with the right button and select "Ispect Element (Q)"

Open the selected "<button>" tag  from the arrowhead triangle.

Do the same to  the "<strong>" tag on the next line.

Now you should see a "<span>" tag. Right clik it and select "Copy / inner HTML"

Now you have corrected coordinates in your clipboard.

 

As you can see... it is not impossible :D

 

Yeah, this is super user- friendly :mad:

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Another trick you can use is to block some text near the text you want, expand it cover that text, then copy it out somewhere you'll be able to paste it without formatting, then you'll be able to select the text you want. It happens occasionally on other sites that for whatever reason use an HTML element that doesn't allow text selection on the text you want.

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