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I think internet explorer did this selection thing at one point years ago. I don’t recall chrome doing it. Firefox used to have a ‘caret browsing’ feature but people didn’t use it so it was eventually removed. So I don’t really think it’s a missed opportunity so much as a feature people didn’t sufficiently love.

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Press F6 in firefox for caret browsing.

That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

Ah I didn’t realise it still existed. I think I must have misremembered the warning as being a deprecation notice.

Thanks, that comes in very useful from time to time. I thought that got disabled. Chrome did double checked that I know what I’m doing with a popup, I hope this is not a sign this will get deprecated.

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