Unable to use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox

Question

I have not managed to get my pbcopy/pbpaste to work in Screen as discussed here.

I aim to solve the problem by having Screen clipboard inside Firefox. Its paste works in terminal by the following command but not in Firefox

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How can you use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox?

Answer 1

Here's a solution that makes use of screen's buffer-writing commands and pbcopy:

• Copying the GNU screen buffer to the Leopard clipboard