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~inquiry

I'd kind of forgotten about this one, but a couple weeks ago the same Chromebook I've used for years to access a banking site now *always* merely spins after I provide creds and click "login", so now I have to access that with the phone, which I tend to despise.

Yep... tried clearing cookies.. rebooting... incognito mode... still just spins.. no idea what the frick cause the brick....

Another thing that goes back more like a month or two was some subtle change to the way copy/paste works on this machine, as though selecting text became more difficult than it did for years... now it seems grabbing the first character on the left side of a window is somehow more difficult, as though starting just a little too far left means nothing will be grabbed after pressing the left click and then dragging across the touchpad with a right finger.

I'm probably not describing it well, but the net of it is that I suddenly had to try a lot harder - as in more attempts required - to select copy text, which generally implies mistakenly pasting the last successful copy, which can be <deity> knows what....

Speaking of selecting text to copy... anyone know why selecting text in a scrollable textarea sometimes works.. and sometimes doesn't? By "works" I mean that if one is creating a selection and moves the cursor past the upper or lower textarea border, scrolling occurs so that text not originally visible winds up selected. I swear there are times I can't get that scrolling to occur... or it'll occur if dragging the selection area from down to up, or from up to down... but not both directions... I mean, WTF? And I swear that's been happening to me for the better part of a decade.

Or let's say your cursor is parked in a textarea, and you do Ctrl-a to select all. I swear that sometimes *only* text in the textarea is selected... but other times it selects text both within and without the textarea.

(EXTRA CREDIT: Any guesses on how long it would take to guess the correct search terms to wind up reading something meaningful/helpful on the actual topic instead of landfills of infinitely-monetized topic tripe...?)

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~tetris wrote (thread):

Are you running this on native X, or is this through Crouton?