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[Stuart Langridge <sil-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

If some text is selected when the user selects Share in the web browser,
the browser could add that selected text to the ContentItem it shares
(as well as keeping the URL set to the URL of the page). This would make
it possible to build apps like Android's Xcerpt
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcendentlabs.xcerpt)
which formats the text and link into a nice image for uploading to
Twitter.

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1600331

Title:
  Sharing a URL while text is selected could add the text to the shared
  ContentItem

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If some text is selected when the user selects Share in the web
  browser, the browser could add that selected text to the ContentItem
  it shares (as well as keeping the URL set to the URL of the page).
  This would make it possible to build apps like Android's Xcerpt
  (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcendentlabs.xcerpt)
  which formats the text and link into a nice image for uploading to
  Twitter.

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