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Original title was "Can't copy paste on Google Docs on Chromium without an extension". Need to edit to fit the "[SOLVED]".
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The browser extension name is "Google Docs Offline". And it's made by google.
I use google sheets, and often I need to specify whether I want to copy and paste either the formula, or cell values only. This is accomplished by using the right-click context menu on google sheets.
This used to work just fine (a few months ago?) on my previous laptop. And it seems to work fine on AUR's google-chrome without this extension.
But now to copy+paste with the right-click menu on Google Sheet on Chromium, I need to install this extension "Google Docs Offline" first. There doesn't seem to be many results about this on google. Perhaps some kind of A/B-testing or slow rollout? Because I can still do it on AUR's Google Chrome, just not Chromium from the Arch repo. I'm not sure if it's only on linux, or if windows/macos has the same issue.
Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy paste still work. But as I said I need to use "paste special: values only", "paste special: formula only" features of google sheets.
This is a pretty fresh Arch install. The most I've done is to enable chromium policies (DnsOverHttpsMode, DnsOverHttpsTemplates, URLBlocklist). I use xfce and also installed the xfce4-goodies packages if it matters.
Anyone got any info about this? It's hard to google. And I couldn't find any official explanation. Perhaps there's some setting I can enable so I don't need to install the extension.
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Never mind. Found https://support.google.com/docs/answer/161768. It says:
> Tip: To use the menu options, Docs Offline extension needs to be installed.
Anyways, my point is, in some cases I can still copy-paste with the menu without the extension. Who knows why.
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Btw copy paste from menu works on firefox without any additional extension. But firefox has other issues with google sheets. That's why I don't use google docs products with it.
Last edited by E3LDDfrK (2025-06-08 13:01:52)
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