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[Bug 1573620] Re: can't deselect text after selecting on nytimes.com

 

I have verified that with a custom UA string override for mobile.nytimes.com, the issue goes away.
I used an iphone UA string:

   Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334
Safari/7534.48.3

But I’m guessing that an android one would do just fine, too.

Santosh, would you mind adding such an override to the browser? The
relevant file is https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/webbrowser-
app/trunk/view/head:/src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js.

** Changed in: oxide
       Status: In Progress => Invalid

** Also affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Santosh (santoshbit2007)

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  can't deselect text after selecting on nytimes.com

Status in Canonical System Image:
  In Progress
Status in Oxide:
  Invalid
Status in webapps-sprint:
  In Progress
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This occurs on nytimes.com, most other sites works but guessing others
  will not work as well.

  Steps to reproduce:
  - go to nytimes.com and click on a news article
  - long press and drag the handles to select some text
  - tap on another area of the page to deselect the selected text

  Expected results:
  - selected text should become unselected

  Actual results:
  - text remains selected

  Note, this works correctly in Chrome for iOS

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