Just to close my question on this thread for anyone interested I found that when I updated soholaunch to the latest version, the pop up message, on trying to use the cut,copy,paste tools on the text editor, notifying that these tools do not work under FireFox, now points one to a meaningful article. Unlike the previous version which is the downloadable default version that sent one on a wild goose chase with the info link it proposed. However, I decided after all not to tackle the security defaults of FireFox and make do with CTRL+X, +C, +V that work anyway.