[KNOWN ISSUE] Firefox won't let me paste my clipboard in Whatsapp and turns out I have to "refresh it" i.e., "reset it"

edit: Yeah, the problem has worsened.

So yeah, I wanted to paste a video on chatbox of a friend on Whatsapp web but I wasn't able to. When I tried to find a solution for it, I found this (Mozilla forums link) and it says, I have to reset my firefox browser. Now, my firefox is pretty customized, is there a way to save the extensions I have downloaded and their settings before I purge everything basically?

I use Linux btw, but, this is not Distro specific. If you follow the forums link, you would see that that guy was using some shitty distro called Windows 10

PS: I love firefox and can never bring myself to use Chrome, but this has been a utter waste of time and I wish I didn't have to do this. This wasted a lot of time.

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

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Happened to me today. I used the DontFuckWithPaste extension and added WhatsApp web to it. Worked then.
However when I then tried to paste an image it didn't work so I had to disable it for that.
An annoying workaround but it's something.
- somewhat very similar happened to me, except for the extension part. I mean, it worked on and off and sometimes image paste and text paste both would work and somtimes only one would work.
  It was somewhat related to state of dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

I've never had this problem so can't tell for sure. But have you tried the solution in the very link you shared?
Also had copy/paste not working on some sites. Noticed that dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled was set to false. Set it to true on about:config page, now everything works.
- edit 2: It's frustrating an weird, apparently the true or false has no bearing on this, it's just randomly pasting and then not pasting So, to repeat, do you know a way to save my extensions config
  I actually didn't bother to read everything. I thought since the chosen solution told me to reset it, I would have to reset it.
  Weird, weird, weird
  dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled is set to true and if it's set to true, I can't paste in whatsapp.
  But, if it's set to false, I can paste. Exactly the opposite of the solution works for me.
  
  Extensions either save their settings in the "cloud" or locally.
  If you've got Firefox Sync setup, the ones which write to "cloud" will be automatically backed up for you.
  Some extensions also offer to export your config to a file so that you can import it later.
  It all varies by extension and impossible to tell w/o knowing which ones you're using.
  That said, you can always safely experiment using a new profile w/o needing to delete the current one. Create a new profile (launch firefox using firefox -P) and see if copy-paste works properly in there. If yes, then you can add your extensions one by one to the new profile w/o losing your settings.

Seems to be a Firefox Bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/comments/15tgoau/cant_post_links_anymore_using_whatsapp_web/jwl5dmy/
Direct source: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125920#issuecomment-1682993012
- interesting, thank you!

Oh, I thought it was just my problem. Could a new profile solve this instead of Firefox reset
- I am installing a new browser now :'(
  brave, hier komme ich

Fix prob available Mon according to employee engaged on it
- Wait! you mean to say it would be solved by this Monday?

Same happened to me today. I circumvented it with inspect element, just pasting the text there directly.

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