[gentoo-user] Weird firefox

[Ian Zimmerman]

I select some text in another program (maybe a valid URL, maybe not),
copy it to the clipboard.

In firefox, I click in the urlbar (or I press F6 enough times to get
there) and I type Control-V.  And ... nothing happens.  Interestingly
going directly to a selected URL by mid-clicking on the tab contents
does work; and I would be fine with that, except that sometimes I
intentionally copy something that is _not_ an URL, intending to edit it
inside the urlbar.

Also interestingly, it works when I select something in firefox itself;
the weird behavior only happens when the selection comes from another
program.  It's almost as if this was a security feature.  If it is, it's
an unwanted one.

Does everybody else's firefox behave this way. or is this some obscure
setting I have unwittingly changed?  How can I paste arbitrary text into
the urlbar?

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