Bookmarklets do not work

[AlainKnaff]

In many of today's browser, it is possible to bookmark a javascript: URL . When clicking on such a bookmark, the javascript code snippet is executed within the context of the currently shown page.

Attempting to do this in the Ubuntu Phone web browser pops up a new tab with an about:blank page...

Bookmarklets would be handy to work around other deficiencies in the browser (such as lack of form autocompletion or password manager, bug #1516220): just have some javascript bookmark that fills in the required fields (I know, there are security implications, but for unimportant social networking sites this would be ok)

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/public_html$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/public_html$ apt-cache policy webbrowser-app
webbrowser-app:
  Installed: 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1 0
       1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/stable-snapshot/ubuntu/ vivid/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.23+15.04.20150416-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ vivid/main armhf Packages

What I expected to happen:
 javascript code of the bookmark should be executed on current page

What happened instead:
 New tab is created with about:blank content

[AlainKnaff (kubuntu-misc)]

Sorry, hadn't noticed that this bug was already filed.
Duplicate of #1407746