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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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text selection on mouse click

Reported by zzz...@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2966.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. open an arbitrarily web
2. double-click on a word to high-light it 

What is the expected behavior?
only the word should be high-lighted

What went wrong?
the space on the right will be high-lighted correspondingly,but it should not

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 57.0.2966.0  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: no flash

 

Comment 1 by zzz...@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

the screenshot
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Comment 2 by woxxom@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

All [major] browsers have been doing that since forever. Although I agree, it's weird and inconvenient especially for passwords.

Comment 3 by zzz...@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

why not to give a short-cut to toggle this?
e.g. double-click to perform a default behavior while ctrl+double-click to only make the word to be high-lighted
Cc: yosin@chromium.org rbyers@chromium.org
Components: -Blink Blink>Editing>Selection
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Interesting.  This appears to be Windows-specific (Chrome on Linux and Mac don't do that), but is indeed consistent with selection behavior elsewhere in Windows (eg. in the native OS UI).  Some explanation here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6382c1cc-2a91-42bb-ab05-1fc6f7becef6/double-click-to-select-word-without-trailing-spaces?forum=outlook

Chrome doesn't add detailed settings for this sort of thing, we follow the OS conventions (sorry).  If, however, Microsoft could be convinced to add an OS-level setting then I'm sure we'd want Chrome to honor that.  So I suggest you submit your feedback to Microsoft.

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