# Setting Clipboard Preferencess for Mozilla/Netscape HTML Editing

To protect users' private information, unprivileged scripts cannot invoke the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands in the Netscape/Mozilla rich text editor, so the corresponding buttons on the HTML Editor will not work. To enable these functions, you must modify your browser preferences.

1. Quit Netscape/Mozilla. If you have Quick Launch running (in Windows, an icon in the toolbar), quit that too.
2. Find your Netscape/Mozilla profile directory. On Windows 2000, this may be located in

       C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\profilename\xxxxxxxx.slt

   . On Linux/Unix systems, this may be located in

       ~/.mozilla/profilename/xxxxxxxx.slt

   Instead of .mozilla, you may also have .netscape or some other directory depending on which Gecko-based browser you're using.
3. Open the user.js file from that directory in a text editor. If there's no user.js file, create one.
4. Add these lines to user.js:

             user_pref("capability.policy.default.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
             user_pref("capability.policy.default.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");

   If you want to enable cut/paste for one site only, add the following instead:

             user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");
             user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://site.name");
             user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
             user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");

5. Save the file, and restart Mozilla. The Clipboard buttons should now function.