I ran into this on a recent project that involved tedious copy / pasting of tons of text. The issue is that if the site you are copying from has a plugin like ShareThis installed the pastes will have this garbage attached at the end of every text paste…
- See more at: http://www........com
So I was faced with having to delete this text every paste I made that had more than a few lines of text.
The Solution
On Firefox you can type about:config in the location bar to change settings and search for…
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
Then just change that value to “false” by clicking on it if it says “true” . It should look like this…
You may then just close that tab and that setting hack will stick. The problem of pasting in extra junk should be solved.
Hit me up in the comments section with any questions or alternate ways of doing this.
Thanks for reading. Disable / Prevent ShareThis “See more” text when Copying and Pasting is a post from Blake Imeson
