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Github somehow manages to copy stuff to the clipboard with flash player disabled - apparently it's using the new HTML5 clipboard API.

IIRC ZeroClipboard falls back to flash if you're not using a browser with the new clipboard APIs.

But this problem is irrelevant, since all versions of Chrome that block flash will have this API, not?

But that's irrelevent anyway, as Chrome wouldn't block ~tiny~ flash plugins used by the clipboard transport.

ZeroClipboard doesn't use the HTML5 clipboard APIs yet, but there is an open issue:

It may be using both.