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I cannot paste text into my IDE terminal​

If you're using the Firefox browser and want to paste something into the terminal window of your IDE, you might get the following error message:

Unable to read from the browser's clipboard. Please make sure
you have granted access for this website to read from the clipboard.

Currently, the only way to enable clipboard reading (and writing) in Firefox is to enable the dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard setting in your browser. To do so, you can follow these steps:

  1. Enter about:config in the navigation bar
  2. Click "Accept the Risk and Continue"
  3. Search for dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard and set to true