diff --git a/components/ui/autocomplete/build.gradle b/components/ui/autocomplete/build.gradle
index 50e0e335b2b..e6e14b9ddda 100644
--- a/components/ui/autocomplete/build.gradle
+++ b/components/ui/autocomplete/build.gradle
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation Dependencies.androidx_appcompat
 
+    implementation project(":support-utils")
+
     testImplementation project(":support-test")
 
     testImplementation Dependencies.androidx_test_junit
diff --git a/components/ui/autocomplete/src/main/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditText.kt b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/main/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditText.kt
index 570abab30d6..de9be43d84f 100644
--- a/components/ui/autocomplete/src/main/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditText.kt
+++ b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/main/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditText.kt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 package mozilla.components.ui.autocomplete
 
+import android.content.ClipboardManager
 import android.content.Context
 import android.content.Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE
 import android.graphics.Rect
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ import android.provider.Settings.Secure.getString
 import android.text.Editable
 import android.text.NoCopySpan
 import android.text.Selection
+import android.text.Spannable
 import android.text.Spanned
 import android.text.TextUtils
 import android.text.TextWatcher
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ import android.view.inputmethod.InputConnectionWrapper
 import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager
 import androidx.annotation.VisibleForTesting
 import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText
+import mozilla.components.support.utils.SafeUrl
 
 typealias OnCommitListener = () -> Unit
 typealias OnFilterListener = (String) -> Unit
@@ -716,11 +719,27 @@ open class InlineAutocompleteEditText @JvmOverloads constructor(
     }
 
     override fun onTextContextMenuItem(id: Int): Boolean {
-        var newId = id
-        if (newId == android.R.id.paste && Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
-            newId = android.R.id.pasteAsPlainText
+        // Ensure more control over what gets pasted from the framework floating menu.
+        // Behavior closely following the default implementation from TextView#onTextContextMenuItem().
+        if (id == android.R.id.paste || id == android.R.id.pasteAsPlainText) {
+            val selectionStart = selectionStart
+            val selectionEnd = selectionEnd
+
+            val min = 0.coerceAtLeast(selectionStart.coerceAtMost(selectionEnd))
+            val max = 0.coerceAtLeast(selectionStart.coerceAtLeast(selectionEnd))
+
+            if (id == android.R.id.pasteAsPlainText ||
+                (id == android.R.id.paste && Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M)
+            ) {
+                paste(min, max, false)
+            } else {
+                paste(min, max, true)
+            }
+
+            return true // action was performed
         }
-        return super.onTextContextMenuItem(newId)
+
+        return callOnTextContextMenuItemSuper(id)
     }
 
     @Suppress("ClickableViewAccessibility")
@@ -750,6 +769,49 @@ open class InlineAutocompleteEditText @JvmOverloads constructor(
         }
     }
 
+    @VisibleForTesting
+    internal fun callOnTextContextMenuItemSuper(id: Int) = super.onTextContextMenuItem(id)
+
+    /**
+     * Paste clipboard content between min and max positions.
+     *
+     * Method matching TextView#paste() but which also strips unwanted schemes before actually pasting.
+     */
+    @Suppress("NestedBlockDepth")
+    @VisibleForTesting
+    internal fun paste(min: Int, max: Int, withFormatting: Boolean) {
+        val clipboard = context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
+        val clip = clipboard.primaryClip
+
+        if (clip != null) {
+            var didFirst = false
+            for (i in 0 until clip.itemCount) {
+                val textToBePasted: CharSequence?
+                textToBePasted = if (withFormatting) {
+                    clip.getItemAt(i).coerceToStyledText(context)
+                } else {
+                    // Get an item as text and remove all spans by toString().
+                    val text = clip.getItemAt(i).coerceToText(context)
+                    (text as? Spanned)?.toString() ?: text
+                }
+
+                // Actually stripping unwanted schemes
+                val safeTextToBePasted = SafeUrl.stripUnsafeUrlSchemes(context, textToBePasted)
+
+                if (safeTextToBePasted != null) {
+                    if (!didFirst) {
+                        Selection.setSelection(editableText as Spannable?, max)
+                        editableText.replace(min, max, safeTextToBePasted)
+                        didFirst = true
+                    } else {
+                        editableText.insert(selectionEnd, "\n")
+                        editableText.insert(selectionEnd, safeTextToBePasted)
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     companion object {
         internal val AUTOCOMPLETE_SPAN = NoCopySpan.Concrete()
         internal const val DEFAULT_AUTOCOMPLETE_BACKGROUND_COLOR = 0xffb5007f.toInt()
diff --git a/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest.kt b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest.kt
index 4bd512c4be9..5c59b93c697 100644
--- a/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest.kt
+++ b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/java/mozilla/components/ui/autocomplete/InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest.kt
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 package mozilla.components.ui.autocomplete
 
+import android.content.ClipData
+import android.content.ClipboardManager
+import android.content.Context
+import android.os.Build
 import android.text.Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
 import android.view.KeyEvent
 import android.view.ViewParent
@@ -20,12 +24,17 @@ import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
 import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
 import org.junit.Test
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.anyBoolean
+import org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.eq
+import org.mockito.Mockito.anyInt
 import org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn
 import org.mockito.Mockito.mock
 import org.mockito.Mockito.never
 import org.mockito.Mockito.spy
+import org.mockito.Mockito.times
 import org.mockito.Mockito.verify
 import org.robolectric.Robolectric.buildAttributeSet
+import org.robolectric.annotation.Config
 
 @RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
 class InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest {
@@ -424,4 +433,89 @@ class InlineAutocompleteEditTextTest {
         // assigning here so it verifies the setter, not the getter
         verify(et, never()).isEnabled = true
     }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN onTextContextMenuItem is called for options other than paste THEN we should not paste() and just call super`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.copy)
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.shareText)
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.cut)
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.selectAll)
+
+        verify(editText, never()).paste(anyInt(), anyInt(), anyBoolean())
+        verify(editText, times(4)).callOnTextContextMenuItemSuper(anyInt())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN onTextContextMenuItem is called for paste THEN we should paste() and not call super`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.paste)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(anyInt(), anyInt(), anyBoolean())
+        verify(editText, never()).callOnTextContextMenuItemSuper(anyInt())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN onTextContextMenuItem is called for pasteAsPlainText THEN we should paste() and not call super`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.pasteAsPlainText)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(anyInt(), anyInt(), anyBoolean())
+        verify(editText, never()).callOnTextContextMenuItemSuper(anyInt())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @Config(sdk = [Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP, Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1])
+    fun `GIVEN an Android L device, WHEN onTextContextMenuItem is called for paste THEN we should paste() with formatting`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.paste)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(anyInt(), anyInt(), eq(true))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @Config(sdk = [Build.VERSION_CODES.M, Build.VERSION_CODES.N, Build.VERSION_CODES.O, Build.VERSION_CODES.P])
+    fun `GIVEN an Android M device, WHEN onTextContextMenuItem is called for paste THEN we should paste() without formatting`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.paste)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(anyInt(), anyInt(), eq(false))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN no previous text WHEN paste is selected THEN paste() should be called with 0,0`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.paste)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(eq(0), eq(0), eq(false))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN 5 chars previous text text WHEN paste is selected THEN paste() should be called with 0,5`() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+        editText.setText("chars")
+        editText.selectAll()
+
+        editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.paste)
+
+        verify(editText).paste(eq(0), eq(5), eq(false))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `WHEN paste() is called  `() {
+        val editText = spy(InlineAutocompleteEditText(testContext, attributes))
+        (testContext.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager).apply {
+            setPrimaryClip(ClipData.newPlainText("Test", "test"))
+        }
+
+        editText.paste(0, 0, false)
+
+        assertEquals("test", editText.text.toString())
+    }
 }
diff --git a/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf1c399ea81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/ui/autocomplete/src/test/resources/mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+mock-maker-inline
+// This allows mocking final classes (classes are final by default in Kotlin)
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 7d9e2a9d3ed..f2e89adc523 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ permalink: /changelog/
 * [Gecko](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/blob/master/buildSrc/src/main/java/Gecko.kt)
 * [Configuration](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/blob/master/.config.yml)
 
+* **ui-autocomplete**:
+  * Pasting from the clipboard now cleans up any unwanted uri schemes.
+
 * **support-utils**:
   * 🌟 Added SafeUrl#stripUnsafeUrlSchemes that can cleanup unwanted uri schemes. Interested clients can specify what these are by overwriting "mozac_url_schemes_blocklist".