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SquareWheel on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Do you select text while reading?

I also do that. Once in a while you get text with a colon in it, which Chrome interprets as a protocol handler and goes to about:blank. 1 in a thousand but it still gets me often. Here is a test.

drag: thistext

And yes, I've reported this bug.

Inufu on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

works fine for me in Chrome 23.0.1271.64 on Ubuntu 12.10

SquareWheel on Nov 29, 2012 | [–]

I believe it's Windows only, but I'm not currently dualbooting to verify.

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