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by boring_twenties 2375 days ago
On an unrelated note, fuck those fields. That is all.

edit: OK that's not all. Anyone else who's sick of websites interfering with your copy/paste operations, find dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled in about:config and set it to false. HTH.
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kohtatsu 2375 days ago
I imagine GP was not specifically talking about paste-disabled confirm-email fields, rather just confirm email fields in general.
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boring_twenties 2375 days ago
I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't paste-disabled, though my knowledge is way out of date since I found out about the aforementioned config setting.
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paranoidrobot 2375 days ago
Well in our case paste wasn't disabled.

It was definitely a case of a PM coming up with a quick and cheap 'fix' to the problem of getting so many people typing their email address wrong the first time.

We (from the tech side) put together a bunch of options, including validating the domain and giving the user feedback if delivery doesn't succeed immediately. But it was put on a backlog of 'nice things to implement' and never delivered.

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