It is my hope that Privacy is the community for this. I think freedom to use browsers the way we intend is a privacy issue.

We have likely all seen or heard that the “Select All” option has been removed from Safari — don’t hate me, I won’t be doing apple again.

That said, manual SELECTING of text still exists.

Here’s the privacy issue:

When I SELECT a small amount of text, I am offered the COPY option.

When I SELECT a few hundred words, even at Gutenberg, I’m given zero time to hit the copy button.

Just now I shifted to Firefox and had zero problem doing what I needed to do.

Could other interested folks confirm this SAFARI bug/irritant/annoyance?

Here’s the page I was using:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/766/pg766.txt

In safari, check what happens if you try to copy five words vs. 300 words.

  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.mlOP
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    10 months ago

    Well, that’s good news. Not sure why it was easy for me in Firefox but impossible in Safari.

    Thanks for taking a peek.

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      10 months ago

      Any Safari extensions installed that might be interfering with this behavior? That’s the best I can figure.