Selecting text to read specific bit of text not working

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Selecting text to read specific bit of text not working #145

Open ghost opened 10 years ago

ghost commented 10 years ago

The bookmarklet reads the whole page even when using it with a selected block of text. This happens on all web pages, at least in Firefox 28 and 29, and Chrome 34, both in Ubuntu 14.04. Haven't checked on other browsers or OSes.

boykov commented 10 years ago

The bookmarklet in Firefox 28, Ubuntu 12.04 has the same problem.

heyakyra commented 9 years ago

Same here. Is this a bug in a supported feature that is supposed to work, or is this an enhancement request?

boykov commented 8 years ago

squirt uses window.getSelection() function, which does not work on text selected in form fields due to this Firefox bug.