The share button on posts doesn't seem to work

[K4LCIFER]

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Summary

When clicking the share button, nothing gets copied to clipboard, it hangs for a moment, then a little window pops up asking what to do. If one clicks, for example, copy to clipboard, it still doesn't get copied to clipboard.

This is the window that pops up when I click that button:

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what I'd expect to happen with that button — I'm not sure what it's intended behavior is. At any rate, it currently doesn't seem to really work at all.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Click the share button on a post
2. Observe that nothing gets copied to clipboard
3. Observe that it hangs for a moment before a little window pops up asking how to share
4. Observe that clicking "copy to clipboard" doesn't copy to clipboard

Technical Details

OS: Arch Linux, Kernel v6.12.21-1-lts
DE: KDE Plasma v6.3.4
Browser: Firefox v137.0

Lemmy Instance Version

0.19.10

Lemmy Instance URL

sh.itjust.works

[dessalines]

Where is this share button in lemmy-ui?

[K4LCIFER]

Where is this share button in lemmy-ui?

[K4LCIFER]

This issue is perhaps related: asimons04/tesseract#40

It produces the same behavior.

[matc-pub]

The button is only visible when navigator.canShare is true.

On desktop it is disabled for me, but works on Android (with Firefox based browser). Doing share -> copy copies the post url, share -> Signal app creates a new message with the url.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/share#browser_compatibility lists firefox as not supported.

Firefox 71 (Released 2019-12-10)
From version 71: this feature is behind the dom.webshare.enabled preference (needs to be set to true). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.

[dessalines]

Weird how that specific firefox is showing it. Maybe a KDE thing.