Chrome Version       : 68.0.3440.106
OS Version: OS X 10.13.6
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
  Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
     Safari: API isn't available
    Firefox: API implemented in Nightly (63) and works as expected
    IE/Edge: API isn't available

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. install extension (attached file)
2. open devtools of its background page (from chrome://extensions page)
3. click its browser action then look at the console
4. check out the log

What is the expected result?
it shows "SUCCESS: text copied."


What happens instead of that?
it shows "FAIL: can't copy text." and the error object (which is undefined) in the next line.


Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

I was trying to use the Async Clipboard API (introduced in Chrome 66, and Firefox 63) to copy some text to the clipboard in the extensions. It worked in Firefox, but failed in Chrome.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36



 

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