Bizarre clipboard behavior in relation to Opera on Windows 10

[opavicus]

opavicus last edited by

I've run into this twice today: I copy an image from Opera, paste it to some other app, then copy or cut a URL or part of it from Opera, then go to paste it in another app, and the picture pastes.

I can tell from the cut that the selected portion disappears, which normally means it's put into Windows' clipboard.

Since the problem has only happened from images and text in Opera, this implies Opera is messing with Windows' clipboard, or is not actually moving the text to the clipboard. I've never seen this with any other app. I haven't installed any plugins, and Windows multi-clipboard is disabled.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

So, goto https://i.natgeofe.com/n/548467d8-c5f1-4551-9f58-6817a8d2c45e/NationalGeographic_2572187_square.jpg, right-click on the image, choose "copy", open up mspaint, choose paste, go back to Opera and select "NationalGeographic_2572187_square.jpg" in the address field, choose "cut", open a text editor, choose paste to past that cut text, switch back to mspaint, create a new file (discarding the current), and choose paste again?

If so, when I do that with Opera 98.0.4759.15 64-bit on Windows 11 22H2, "NationalGeographic_2572187_square.jpg" gets properly inserted into the Windows clipboards, pastes into my text editor not problem, and replaces the image in the clipboard with that text where trying to paste in mspaint then does nothing.

[opavicus]

opavicus @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Doing it your way didn't show the problem. The problem is intermittent though, I'm not sure exactly the parameters that cause it, and your example apparently doesn't have those parameters.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @opavicus last edited by

@opavicus Okay. If you figure out the exact steps, please post.

[phmelious]

phmelious last edited by

Having similar issue since latest update. Cannot copy and paste a url to my search in the page that has all my speed dials. No option to copy and paste or just paste even.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @phmelious last edited by

@phmelious You could use the keyboard. Ctrl-V is Paste.

[phmelious]

phmelious @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse

I've used control v in other applications but yes it works in the search block. Or seems to. Thanks for your answer.

[alobpreis]

alobpreis last edited by alobpreis

I'm not sure if this can be of help, but have in mind that the clipboard can have multiple types of contents. Take for example Excel. If you copy a group of cells, you can paste the text content into Notepad, but also paste a screenshot of those in Paint, having done just one Ctrl-C.
So it looks like in your case the text might have been copied to the clipboard but the image stayed, and the target app used the image content. Did you by chance try to paste afterwards in something like Notepad (where of course images can't be inserted)?
Another thought: some pages have Javascript limitation to copying stuff, I recall experiencing doing Ctrl-X and still having the previous text in the clipboard. I think the key here is exact reproduction steps, maybe related to a specific site.