Safari copy paste

safari copy-cut-paste is not working as expected.
Use case: email service online, copy email text ( html/txt ) which has been added as attachment.
After issueing the copy command, the paste result is not what is expected in the mailer app (i have gmail and yahoo configured).
The paste result is a previous text which was copied from within safari.
To get to work i used goodreaders integrated webbrowser, here i am able to copy the text and paste accordingly.
Bottomline:
Safari needs a bugfix urgently, unworkable for me, unaccaptable that i need to use an alternative to be able to do basic functions.
Things i tried:
Reset
Reboot
Neither fixed the behaviour nor altered it.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Kind regards,
Fabian

Hi Philly_Phan,
I just tried, i copied your text, pasted in this reply, no problem.
I honestly don't understand your problem. Safari's C&P works fine for me. Please provide some detail regarding what you do and what happens.
Correct AnswerHelpful Answer
Now i return to my webmail which is based on squirrelmail, copy some header info for you, and paste again, and your text which was the previous copy command shows up.
In order to provide you with the header-info, i have to open goodreader, go to my webmail-site and copy the same info again.
See the pasted text:
Subject: [Fwd: Vaga no Rrrrr - =?iso-8859-1?Q?divulga=E7=E3o]?=
From: xxxx@xxxx
To: xxxx@xxxx
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="----=_20120216123306_78538"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
So why is safari unable to do this? I am not the only one with this behavior as a quick google can show.
Any tips or tricks?
Kind regards,
Fabian

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