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.
I wasn’t able to replicate this, in safari highlighting a couple words or several hundred words both worked fine, the copy option was there and stayed there both times. I tried on a iPad mini and an iPhone SE
Well, that’s good news. Not sure why it was easy for me in Firefox but impossible in Safari.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Any Safari extensions installed that might be interfering with this behavior? That’s the best I can figure.