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Accessing Operating System Clipboard in Chromium (Chrome) Extensions

Posted on November 20, 2010 by farter

Earlier this year, Webkit disabled clipboard access of web pages by default for security reasons (see this changelog and this bug report). Programming-wise, this means good old document.execCommand(‘Copy’) and document.execCommand(‘Paste’) will always return false. This is indeed quite understandable, and … Continue reading →

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