XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:37:15 -0500, Maria Sophia wrote:   
      
   > The contrast I'm trying to help explain to this newsgroup is that   
   > Firefox often advertises only text/plain unless the selection   
   > contains real markup.   
      
       ldo@theon:~> cat test.txt   
       Hi there.   
       ldo@theon:~> firefox test.txt   
       [in Firefox, do Select All and Copy.]   
      
       [back in a terminal session:]   
       ldo@theon:~> wl-paste -l   
       text/html   
       text/_moz_htmlcontext   
       text/_moz_htmlinfo   
       text/plain;charset=utf-8   
       UTF8_STRING   
       COMPOUND_TEXT   
       TEXT   
       text/plain   
       STRING   
       text/plain;charset=utf-8   
       text/plain   
       text/x-moz-url-priv   
       SAVE_TARGETS   
      
       ldo@theon:~> wl-paste -t text/html   
       
Hi   
   there.   
       
   
      
   So ... nope.   
      
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