Chromium Version 131+ Causes Copy Issues on Many Websites, Selection Style Not Visible
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Landian.news regularly uses Chrome Canary, Chrome Stable, Microsoft Edge Stable, and Firefox Nightly browsers, primarily for testing purposes.
However, using beta versions means inevitably encountering some unexpected bugs, such as an issue that started occurring about a month ago on Chrome Canary, where selecting text on certain websites would not display the usual background color to indicate that the content has been selected. Despite this, the content can still be selected and copied using keyboard shortcuts as usual.
Initially, I thought this was a bug specific to Chrome Canary, especially since only a few of the websites I visited exhibited this problem when copying text, while most others still showed the blue background color indicating text selection.
Now, developers have pointed out that this issue is due to changes in the way text selection behavior works in Chromium version 131, affecting the behavior. Since the stable version of Chrome is currently on version 130, it is not affected yet, but Chrome 131 is expected to be released soon and will therefore encounter this issue.
Adam Wathan, a developer for Tailwind CSS, has posted a solution. This solution involves enabling an option in tailwind.config.js or updating to version 3.4.15.
While it's still unclear how many websites are affected, given the developer's comments, websites using Tailwind CSS are definitely impacted, and there are actually a significant number of such websites.
In some ways, this isn't considered a bug in Chromium or Chrome, as Google has indeed changed the behavior of text selection, which is an expected modification.
Furthermore, regardless of whether websites update or enable the Tailwind CSS option, users of Firefox and Safari will not be affected. If not updated or if the flag is not enabled, then all browsers based on Chromium will be affected in the future.
