[Feature request] Text selection in links like in the old Opera
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Please implement the old Opera text selection behavior! When I clicked the link and am moving the mouse horizontally it selects the text. When I'm moving the mouse vertically it drags the link. I can't express how I miss this feature in all browsers I tried to replace the old Opera. That's so subtle behavior feature, but I'm so frustrated when the link is being dragged when I'm trying to select it. I feel my mouse is daubed with a glue and links are stuck to it. But I was pleasured to note that double/triple click selection just works as expected and selection is not unpredictably extended to a trailing space when selecting a whole word starting from the word end.
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+1
PS There are some userscripts that fix this behaviour, for example: https://gist.github.com/Griever/5005165
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Yeah, text selection in almost all browser is pretty much terrible today.
Opera really had it well, amazingly how other browsers never copied those features.
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+1
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+1
Agreed this is subtle, but really helpful thing.
Have to check out that userscript on Opera 27. -
+1 for the idea.
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+1
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This one works good: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/select-like-a-boss/