My life was significantly improved when I discovered control shift paste, which pastes just text without format. But un-desired formatting of text remain the bane of my life.
When you first hear about it, you think "What's the big deal?", but then you quickly find that you use it pretty often.
- If the text to sanitize is a single line: Win+R, paste, select all, cut, Esc (to close "Run" window)
- If it's multiple lines: Win+R, notepad, Enter, paste, select all, cut, Alt+F4 (to close notepad)
On Linux, I usually switch to Emacs, switch to a scratch buffer, then do the paste-and-cut-again dance in it.
You can set "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" in Firefox to disable all of that, but some websites can break horribly because they just assume it's there and will do $weird_shit if it's not. e.g. Twitter and Facebook messenger for example; it's not that you get an error either, it just behaved in really odd ways. It seems Twitter works now in quick test, and I no longer need to use Facebook Messenger, so let's try setting it again.
There's also "clipboard.plainTextOnly", but it doesn't seem to work, or maybe it does something different from what I expect.