Select like a Boss (delisted)

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Select link's text just like a regular text (like in Opera'12 browser) - Select like a Boss ;)

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Description from store • when you want to select link or part of link ↔ just select it like a regular text; • when you want to drag link ↕ drag it up or down. Enjoy! Notice: some links can be unselectable. ======= Known issues: - Does not work on extensions' pages (chrome.google.com/webstore, addons.opera.com) due to security policies. ======= v 2015.4.24 - New: preventing casual link selection (while clicking) - Fixed: online editors bugs (ajaxorg.github.io/ace, etc.) - Fixed: Google Calendar: cannot create new event by mouse click - selection process improved - preventing click for most links/buttons after selecting - address field icon removed - update/install improved - other improvements and fixes ======= v 2015.2.25 - some bugfixes ======= v 2015.2.15 - Added 'Hide icon' option. - Fixed: conflict with AdBlock Plus (bash.im, etc.). - Memory usage optimized. - Added Options/Help page. - other improvements and fixes ======= v 2015.2.1 - Fixed: Double/Triple click words/paragraph selection. - Disabled for Google Docs. ======= v 2014.12.5 - Fixed: Text selection in textareas. - Some small fixes and changes. ======= v 2014.09.15 - Fixed: extension could block a work of some other extensions ('Auto Copy', 'Search Window', etc). - Slightly improved performance for some critical sections.

Latest reviews

(2020-03-23) Pac: Keeps me sane when attempting to copy text from hyperlinks. Thank you.
(2020-02-21) Alexander Chebykin: This is simply awesome, great job!
(2020-02-03) Владимир Строкин: Не понимаю почему разработчики хрома не могут сразу из коробки сделать такой функционал. Ну реально же бесит, когда не можешь выделить текст ссылки. Без этого расширения оооох какие мучения были. В общем без него теперь как без рук. Клавиатуру больше не хочется раздолбить. Спасибо.
(2020-01-01) Pete: While I did enjoy this extension, I noticed it broke a lot of websites (mainly Wordpress, Squarespace and many text-areas), as it injects code to every website. When I first started noticing issues, I uninstalled extensions one by one, and narrowed it down to this extension causing the issues, so I was forced to uninstall it. The good news, if you press ALT, it seems most links in Chrome can be selected, exactly what this extension did.
(2019-12-24) ISs0ng: Отличное расширение
(2019-12-20) hzh 751: 最高
(2019-12-11) benjamin957957: Does its job
(2019-11-29) Дмитрий Тимилов: Супер расширение, уже 8 лет наверно им пользуюсь, столько нервов мне сберегло
(2019-10-20) Юрий Савельев: Полезное расширение. Спасибо!
(2019-10-08) dTon Kischote: it is absolut the Great! Thank You that You live!
(2019-09-25) Rajesh Prajapati: Works great ..
(2019-09-24) Devocub: Periodically (often, maybe on browser restarts) it gets disabled and it says "This extension may have been corrupted." and "Repair" button. After repair it's ok
(2019-08-28) Mass Killer: Не выделяет из середины ссылки
(2019-08-26) Georgiy Osipov: Thank you much? it's the best! I can'e using chrome without the app. It's awful, if you are trying to select a text from somewhere, and indeed making an action, awwww! For example, you have a test, and wanna find about one variant, you a selecting text in in, and bong! you already vote.
(2019-08-25) kto: Месяц работало нормально а потом стала появляться надпись "Это расширение могло быть повреждено". После востановления какое то время работает и потом опять тоже самое. Все остальные расширения работают нормально.
(2019-08-22) K Luk: ok, extremly prof solution! it is emphatic naturally! but, at Deezer, when a song is in the list disabled and only grey text is to see....select not working... please, what could it be?! So Thankxs!
(2019-08-04) A A: Боже мой, наконец то!! спасибо огромное!
(2019-07-14) fakel: Очень полезное!!! 👍
(2019-01-15) ytcadsl: very nice,the best plugin i have used,awesome
(2019-01-14) Stephane Berube: Fixes Toggle new summary reports, where we cannot select texts.
(2019-01-12) S47: right-left: highlight up-down: drag this should be the description for the extension :)
(2019-01-11) Anatoly Ivanov: Раньше работало, сейчас перестало. Просто нельзя выделять текст ссылки. Надо начинать выделение до или после текста.
(2019-01-02) Erimus Koo: The latest version has a strange bug. On some page, like [https://unsplash.com/documentation#search-photos], after page loaded, then click any code block, will appear a gray block, on the top left of the code block. chrome Version 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) win
(2018-11-22) Bekir Çalışkan: so useful thanks a lot
(2018-09-10) chari chaki: i love it
(2018-09-05) Дмитрий М.: This extension cripples scrollbar responsiveness. It is especially noticeable when you have many extensions installed (like ~25). To be specific: with this extension DISABLED, when you move mouse pointer from page to the scrollbar and then sharply move scrollbar a small distance, page quickly animates the transition to new viewport as mouse moves. Also, scrollbar quickly moves under mouse pointer, while staying tied to it. With this extension ENABLED, when you move mouse pointer from page to the scrollbar and then sharply move scrollbar a small distance, after delay, page abruptly changes to the new viewport, without animated transition. Also, during that delay, scrollbar stays where it was even while mouse pointer moves, and then changes position abruptly. So, scrollbar starts reacting to dragging with delay - that makes using it a pain. That delay in scrollbar responsiveness, on decent CPU, is about ~200 milliseconds at most when many extensions are installed, so it is not immediately obvious, and is very difficult to notice if few extensions are installed. But I've singled out, out of 25 installed extensions, that Select like a Boss is the only one that causes the delay. Unfortunately, this seems to be the bane of all extensions that change how selection in links works:( In preQuantum Firefox there also was an extension called “Drag-Select Link Text” that severely crippled browser performance. Instead, Google needs to create a flag in Chromium that disables link dragging for those who want to select inside links.
(2018-08-23) CryNet: Спасибо
(2018-08-22) Κανάλι: Thanks for that. But, doesn't work with all hyperlinks. Are you still avilable until these days for this ext. to fix it? Thanks again.
(2018-08-06) R GC: Excelente.
(2018-07-04) Gersivan Oliveira: Faz o que promete!
(2018-06-23) badwolf: Thank you a lot!
(2018-06-09) Alexander Petrovich: This extension is a life saver, could't imagine living without it, seriously.
(2018-05-03) Juan Simón: Interfiere con algunas webs como la de mi banco.
(2018-05-01) yura volosyanskyy: very useful

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