Massively simplified copy paste and fixed lots of issues by using eve…

…nts and stopping twitter from interfering with them

background.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function rewriteUserAgentHeader(e) {
     return {requestHeaders: e.requestHeaders};
 }
 
-function removeCookie() {
+function clearCache() {
     browser.browsingData.remove({"hostnames": ["twitter.com"]}, {"cache": true});
     browser.tabs.query({url: "*://*.twitter.com/*"}, function (result) {
         result.forEach(function (tab) {
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ browser.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener(
     ["blocking", "requestHeaders"]
 );
 
-browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(removeCookie);
+browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(clearCache);

fix-paste.js

@@ -1,67 +1,10 @@
-document.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
-
-    // When pressing CTRL+V
-    if (e.key == "v" && e.ctrlKey || e.key == "v" && e.metaKey) {
-        // Get the active element
-        var tweetBox = document.activeElement;
-        // If it's not a tweet return
-        if(!tweetBox.id.includes("tweet-box")) {
-            return
-        }
-
-        // Get caret position
-        var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);
-        var preCaretRange = range.cloneRange();
-        preCaretRange.selectNodeContents(tweetBox);
-        preCaretRange.setEnd(range.endContainer, range.endOffset);
-        var pos = preCaretRange.toString().length;
-
-        // Create temporary input field
-        var tempInput = document.createElement("textarea");
-        tempInput.style.position = "absolute";
-        tempInput.style.top = "0";
-        document.body.appendChild(tempInput);
-        tempInput.focus();
-
-        tempInput.addEventListener("input", function(e) {
-
-            tweetBox.focus();
-
-            // For every character in the temporary input field
-            tempInput.value.split("").forEach(function(char, i) {
-
-                // Call keydown event
-                tweetBox.dispatchEvent(
-                    new KeyboardEvent("keydown", {
-                        type: "keydown",
-                        bubbles: true,
-                        cancelable: true,
-                        key: char,
-                        char: char,
-                        keyCode: char.charCodeAt(0),
-                        which: char.charCodeAt(0)
-                    })
-                );
-
-                // Add character
-                var textArr = tweetBox.textContent.split("");
-                textArr.splice(pos + i, 0, char);
-                tweetBox.textContent = textArr.join("");
-
-            });
-
-            // Remove all temporary input fields
-            document.querySelectorAll("textarea").forEach(function(textarea) {
-                if (textarea.classList.length == 0) textarea.outerHTML = "";
-            });
-
-            // Scroll to the top
-            setTimeout(function() {
-                scrollTo(0, 0);
-            });
-
-        });
-
-    }
-
-});
+// Whenever there's an event for cut/copy/paste stop the propagation of the event
+window.document.addEventListener('cut', function (e) {
+    e.stopPropagation();
+}, true);
+window.document.addEventListener('copy', function (e) {
+    e.stopPropagation();
+}, true);
+window.document.addEventListener('paste', function (e) {
+    e.stopPropagation();
+}, true);

manifest.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "description": "Forces your browser to use old twitter.",
   "manifest_version": 2,
   "name": "GoodTwitter",
-  "version": "1.7",
+  "version": "1.8",
 
   "permissions": [
     "webRequest",