[opensuse] 11.4 FireFox 8.0 - how to turn OFF select of html format for select buffer -- damnit!

Guys,

I HATE the fact that the new browsers and office suites try to think for you
but end up totally screwing up functionality. Today with documents/spreadsheets
being created from multiple web-based sources, every time I go to copy something
from the web and then paste it into a document, even with the
select/middle-mouse (select buffer), it pastes the damn source format of the web
page totally borking the document I'm working on. Libre office is the absolute
worst about this, OO a bit better, but still plagued by it, now firefox is
basically useless as a source for document creation.

In firefox, if I select anything and then middle-mouse paste using the select
buffer, the damn formatting comes along too. How in the heck do I tell it to
stop this crap? I'm working on a OO spreadsheet and I'm trying to select/paste
model numbers into a column with a spreadsheet font of Sans 9. There is NO way I
can find to select/paste into the spreadsheet from firefox without the format
being screwed up. I don't want a 64 pt. red font in my spreadsheet.

If I use the copy buffer, then I can select the text, use ctrl+c and then use
ctrl+shift+v and choose 'unformatted text', but so "the hell much" for
efficiency. That requires a 'select' and then an additional ctrl+c to copy, then
a ctrl+shift+v to bring up the 'paste special dialog' and then a select of
'unformatted text' just to paste WHAT USED TO BE a simple efficient
'select/middle-mouse' (done).

What gives? Surely the developers are not so stupid as to believe every user
wants to paste size 64 red text into a spreadsheet and not even leave a simple
way to disable the format copy so you can still use the select buffer to get
work done.

Guys, I hope I'm wrong here, and there is still a simple way to tell FF I
don't want the html format, but I need help finding it. I've already bugged
Libre and talked with the ApacheOO devs about this issue, but that does me no
good today.

What is the solution here? I should NOT have to go through 'select',
'ctrl+c', 'ctrl+shift+v', select of 'unformatted text' (or select/middle-mouse
paste into kwrite and then select-again/middle-mouse-paste-again) just to paste
into a spreadsheet without getting size 64 red text.

All of this *utterly destroys* the elegant select/middle-mouse paste
efficiency that Linux developers worked so hard to brilliantly create. NEW
FEATURES ARE BUGS IF THERE IS NO WAY TO TURN THEM OFF! How do I fix this problem??

</rant>

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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