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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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