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Possible to select text in Shields Menu by double clicking the blocked scripts

See original GitHub issue

Follow up to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4570

Important: Not sure if it is by design or an actual issue

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open https://www.buzzfeed.com
  2. Block the scripts in Shields
  3. Go to Scripts blocked detailed view
  4. Double click the blocked script

Actual result:

The script text is selected 5472

Expected result:

The script text is not selected

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 0.68.113 Chromium: 76.0.3809.62 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision 7b77856b3aa34d72f246d12340fc1ded8b2c0e83-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#798}
OS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Not reproducible in

Brave 0.66.101 Chromium: 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 8d93477bd18154c67a70a67019cb8032382c55dd-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1160}
OS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

cc @brave/legacy_qa @cezaraugusto @karenkliu

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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1reaction
cezaraugustocommented, Aug 1, 2019

hi @btlechowski thanks for reporting. we intent to implement a copy/paste interface in the future but for now this is expected behavior. closing as wontfix

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srirambvcommented, Aug 1, 2019

It used to be the same behaviour before. May have regressed where you couldn’t select it but now it’s working correctly. You should be allowed to highlight the blocked URLs to see the actual link since shields only have limited visibility for the URLs’

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