How might I detect that a user has selected and copied some content in the currently active tab in a Google Chrome Extension?
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Google Chrome Extensions has an experimental API for you to use that will allow you to execute a copy, cut, and paste. It currently exists in the beta build, so very soon, it will be out of experimental into stable.
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.clipboard.html