#2733 NORM Untriag: Browse shouldn't open plain text links, instead should copy them to the clipboard

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#2733: Browse shouldn't open plain text links, instead should copy them to the
clipboard
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 Reporter:  HoboPrimate       |       Owner:  Eben     
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  interface-design  |     Version:           
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0        
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 Browse currently opens links to text files within itself, but this is
 undesirable because Browse is not great to read these (Read would be
 better), and doesn't let you edit them (Write would) and storage them (for
 the time being Browse doesn't have this).

 A typical case where the current feature is undesired is browsing Project
 Gutenberg books, which are text plain files for compatibility reasons.
 Imagining that in the future Browse lets you save the current file it's
 viewing, even so it would be an extra step to get the book copied to be
 read, edited, shared and stored in the Journal.

 I think we can assume that today plain text (.txt) files aren't being used
 to build webpages, (i.e., they are meant to be downloaded).
 And this would follow Sugar convention that each activity does a specific
 thing (Browse to browse the (Inter)net, Read to read books, etc.).

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