This appears to be fixed in recent releases of chromium-browser.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
Text selection in Chromium is difficult and inconsistent with the rest
of the desktop
Status in Chromium Browser:
Unknown
Status in Unity:
Invalid
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: chromium-browser
PROBLEM
When clicking-and-dragging to highlight text (and/or onscreen
elements) in Chromium, moving the mouse cursor to the left or right of
the selectable area causes a gigantic swath of text and onscreen
elements to be selected. I am not sure what determines how much is
selected, but this behavior is most easily observable when working
with text boxes.
Other Ubuntu / Unity apps have text selection stop at the edge of a
selectable text area, and require you to move the cursor up and down
(while inside or outside the area) to expand the highlighted
selection.
This behavior is a usability concern because it breaks people's
expectations and causes undesirable behavior, and an accessibility
concern because it requires precise cursor positioning in order to
highlight a passage that runs to the edge of a selectable area.
HOW TO REPRODUCE
1. View this webpage in Chromium.
2. Highlight this text by clicking-and-dragging, and watch what happens when
the mouse cursor is moved far enough to the left or the right.
EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
Chromium's text selection behavior will be identical to the rest of
the Unity desktop's, and will not cause accessibility problems for
people who have trouble using a pointing device precisely.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: chromium-browser 10.0.648.133~r77742-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 15 16:33:41 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-13 (1 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
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