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284 points moebrowne | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.492s | source
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HocusLocus ◴[31 Oct 25 20:07 UTC] No.45776149[source]▶
A whole generation of people who click all over to find places that do something. People have this problem where they feel 'proudly vested' in learning things that just weren't designed well.

10 years ago someone decided that dragging links is so much more important than selecting text, selecting text is scarcely possible. I'm going to have to fork a browser to give link-dragging the demotion it deserves. It was probably those DIV guys.

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1. ratijas ◴[31 Oct 25 21:25 UTC] No.45776882[source]▶
There are browser extensions for selecting links. It used to be called Select Like A Boss, now it's Drag-Select Link Text. tl;dr: drag horizontally to select text, drag vertically to drag-and-drop as usual, press and hold to select the whole link text.
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2. Telaneo ◴[01 Nov 25 02:20 UTC] No.45778753[source]▶
Is there an about:config option toggle for this in Firefox? Seems like the kind of thing that should be an option in there, given everything else you can adjust, and it seems a bit much to have to need a full on browser add-on to be able to do this.