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eterevsky / passwordgen

Chrome extension that generates passwords based on a master password and current domain.
MIT License
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Can't copy generated password in Android Chrome. #8

Closed matofesi closed 10 years ago

matofesi commented 10 years ago

This time I have a problem with on-line generator - the "Copy" function doesn't really work for me. I use Linux and Android and Chrome browser on both of them. On Linux clicking "Copy" selects generated password but it doeasn't actually copy it to clipboard - as I have my system configured with X selection disabled (as foar as it's possible) I have to press CTRL+C to do actual copying. This is not a big problem thanks to Chrome extension - bigger problem is on Android. There clicking Copy doesn't do anything (I use the latest stable Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S4 with Android 4.4.2 installed) and - as the password field is marked as read only I can't even select the password to copy it manually so the generator is almost useless as I need to retype generated password switching between pages/apps.

eterevsky commented 10 years ago

So, first of all, it seems that there is no good way to copy something to a clipboard in a web page. The only workaround uses Flash, that is not available in some mobile browsers. Hence, I renamed "Copy" button to "Select" to avoid confusion.

Also there's an ugly Chromium bug that prevents selection of a readonly input. To work around it I made the password field non-readonly and removed the "Select" button altogether since it seems to be useless.

P.S. I really have to write a native Android client.