Selection Pop-Up Menus Have No Functionality

I've been a computer user, coder, and administrator since 1984. Things that have been habits to me for years are arcane wonders to neophytes. I used to have this huge table of ALT codes memorized, but Windows 11 doesn't recognize them, displaying this stupid black diamond with a question mark in it for such generated characters. � See? That was ALT+130, supposed to yield é. Anyway, this isn't about that; this is about keyboard shortcuts I've used LONG before browsers generated pop-up menus when I selected text in them.

I ignore those menus (see attached image) in browsers; they don't work. I select, CTL+C, and paste it where I want. Been doing that since the eighties. This "innovation" as seen in the screen capture is complete garbage. It never pastes what I want when choosing the pop-up menu option Copy. That menu is a damned nuisance, frankly.

By the way, I keep a plain text file of international and other characters that I need since ALT codes stopped working; that's how I was able to generate the é character. Copy/Paste Control Commands.

Hmm, Alt+130 still gives é for me.

gremlinkurst said:

By the way, I keep a plain text file of international and other characters that I need since ALT codes stopped working; that's how I was able to generate the é character. Copy/Paste Control Commands.

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I don't have much call for international characters, but the degree symbol I do use a lot (Alt 0176, by the way) but I can never remember the code when I need it. I keep it pinned at the top of my clipboard history (Win+V) for ease of pasting whenever I need it in a post.

If the tutorial doesn’t help check your preferred keyboard Language/Layout

Select the Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

If “English (United States)” isn’t at the top, try moving it there and check the ALT function. Make sure your Num Lock key is “ON”
If English (United States) is selected at the top, try moving a different layout to the top (preferred)

gremlinkurst said:

I ignore those menus (see attached image) in browsers; they don't work. I select, CTL+C, and paste it where I want. Been doing that since the eighties. This "innovation" as seen in the screen capture is complete garbage. It never pastes what I want when choosing the pop-up menu option Copy. That menu is a damned nuisance, frankly.

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gremlinkurst said:

I ignore those menus

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Then there should be no problem. It is what it is.
If you’ve been a computer user, coder, and administrator since 1984, you should know that needing to adapt to change is inevitable and a learning curve like anything else. Much has changed since 1984 so you should be used to adapting.

One more thing; I am trying to replicate your screenshot. No matter where on this forum (or any other place in Windows) I do not see what you see, I have no "Search Copy Snapshot" hover menu. . Perhaps I have something deactivated in Windows that prevents this, I do not know but I have looked. There is nothing obvious.




Depending on what browser you use, do you use Microsoft Edge? Take a look at this tutorial.


When I tried Edge on this forum, I get a different menu. Perhaps I have an up to date Edge or you use a different browser. Perhaps there are similar settings in your browser.

EDGE:

antspants said:

One more thing; I am trying to replicate your screenshot. No matter where on this forum (or any other place in Windows) I do not see what you see, I have no "Search Copy Snapshot" hover menu.

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It's a browser thing. There's one in Edge, but I don't have it in Firefox.

Bree said:

It's a browser thing. There's one in Edge, but I don't have it in Firefox.

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Yeah I edited my post above with some screenshots for Edge. Still different to his screenshots.

I'm going to make an uneducated guess and say that he is using the Opera Browser.

Opera Browser


Look in Opera settings to disable the search pop-up when selecting text.