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Is it possible to select (and copy after that of course) any text on web page using fingers and touchscreen?

I found only one opportunity - double tap selects single word under tap point. But I need to select more that one word!

IE10 works nice with selection, but Chrome do not? Google had missed that point?

Using Chrome 24.0.1312.57, Windows 8 Pro x86, touchscreen with two points.

Maximus
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Try this idea from List of Touchscreen + Google Chrome Problems :

  1. click on the start of the text that you want to select
  2. press & hold the shift key
  3. click the end of the text that you want to select
harrymc
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For Chrome: long press a location on your screen in you will get a selection highlight with two little dots or flags at either end of the text you have selected. Drag these with your finger until everything you want is selected. Long press again for the operations you want to perform

jdh
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Hold CTRL + long tap on world will select it

tem
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On Linux, it seems Chrome can only see the touch events when using Wayland (under X11 it just sees touches as mouse clicks). To enable that, go to chrome://flags and change "Preferred Ozone Platform" to "Wayland", and make sure you're using a WM that supports Wayland (like KDE).

eman
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Have tried to copy and paste the way you would on Chrome for android?

Long hold touch until 2 brackets appear, then spread the bracket to encompass the selection.

I don't have a touch device with windows so this is just a guess.

RockyFord
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This works on a windows 8 touchscreen laptop in Chrome.

Tap twice: highlight 1 word.
Tap three times: highlight row.
Tap twice, pause, tap once on highlighted word: drag out beginning and end of highlights.

Chetwert
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