User.js: macOS only: copy/paste to Google Docs

[collinbarrett]

I have loosened a few of the user.js rules to suit my usage. I use Google Docs a fair bit, so I have enabled the js-based copy/paste settings. I can now copy/paste in Firefox with user.js on Windows, however pasting via cmd+v on macOS into a Google Doc does not work (enters a literal "v" rather than the copied text). See the modified settings I am using at the link below. Any suggestions? Maybe it's just a macOS-Firefox bug/issue of some kind.

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/compare/master...collinbarrett:master

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

privacy.resistFingerprinting & the cmd key on OSX as per ticket - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405810 .. doesn't have to be Google Docs, it can happen anywhere

The idea is that the UA spoofing should not try to spoof the OS, but instead limit it to four options (windows, Mac, android, and linux for the everything else) - and this will then fix all sorts of issues such as android being served desktop websites, etc. There really are a ton of quirks when the OS is spoofed and differs from the real OS.

[collinbarrett]

Yep, that was it! Thanks so much!

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

@pyllyukko - I am trying to post a reply to #14 and for some reason my posted comments never happen - almost as if I have been banned from that issue? I am allowed to type comments and preview, but when I click the comment button to post it, the comment field just clears and nothing happens. Yup, I refreshed etc. Here is what I was trying to post

@TerkiKerel used remote debugging from desktop FF to run a script which applies your user.js (just copypasta it in to the script) prefs - see https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/issues/318

I have not tested this myself (yet)

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

FYI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404608 (do not lie about OS) - patches being written now, 5 minutes ago :) so I would expect 59 to resolve this problem. Would be nice if they backport to 58 since it's a pretty simple patch IMO (its just the UA spoof)

[collinbarrett]

Awesome! Thanks for the update.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

const SPOOFED_UA_OS = {
  linux: "X11; Linux x86_64",
  win: "Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64",
  macosx: "Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13",
  android: "Android 6.0; Mobile",
  other: "Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64",
};

@collinbarrett - if you set privacy.resistFingerprinting to false, and are not using a UA spoofer (eg in uMatrix or some extension) - what do you get for your UA bits on this test page - https://browserleaks.com/javascript <- just copy paste the stuff from user_agent to oscpu (it's 11 lines)

[pyllyukko]

@pyllyukko - I am trying to post a reply to #14 and for some reason my posted comments never happen - almost as if I have been banned from that issue? I am allowed to type comments and preview, but when I click the comment button to post it, the comment field just clears and nothing happens. Yup, I refreshed etc. Here is what I was trying to post

That's weird! I don't see anything on the issue, that would explain this. Could it be a case of blocking a user (not by me that is...)?

[collinbarrett]

@Thorin-Oakenpants will do that test when i get home to my mac tonight and let you know.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

sorry for the OT, but that's weird @pyllyukko - I see nothing about being blocked in that list, you own the repo :puzzled-face: ... could yu edit the post or mention that the method doesn't require root access, which is why I mentioned it

[collinbarrett]

@Thorin-Oakenpants with resistFingerprinting = false :
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

^^thanks - I guess they'll have to remember to keep updating the OSX version number (I don't have a mac, but this interests me). Not that it really matters if all RFP+Mac users are the same

[pyllyukko]

sorry for the OT, but that's weird @pyllyukko - I see nothing about being blocked in that list, you own the repo :puzzled-face: ... could yu edit the post or mention that the method doesn't require root access, which is why I mentioned it

Not in that list, but by CK, as he is the author of the issue? Not sure, but that is the only explanation I can come up with.

[pyllyukko]

Apparently this got resolved by Mozilla. Closing this now.