<![CDATA[Text selection on links]]>On the old days of Opera, before Chromium, one could select certain words in a link, now it just drags the whole text/link.

For example let's pretend the following is a link to another page with the following text:
'Harambe the Gorilla'

Now, if I wanted to select the word 'Harambe' it just isn't possible, since Opera will instead drag the whole thing.

Any way to get this QOL back?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/16988/text-selection-on-linksRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 01:44:15 GMTThu, 08 Sep 2016 19:56:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Text selection on links on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:29:10 GMT]]>Position the cursor a tiny bit above the link above the first letter you want to select. Then, drag down and to the right. It's obviously not as easy as it was in old Opera, but you kind of get used to it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/107734https://forums.opera.com/post/107734Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:29:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Text selection on links on Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:46:38 GMT]]>I didn't know that! Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/107261https://forums.opera.com/post/107261Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:46:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Text selection on links on Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:01:05 GMT]]>There is extension for that, "select like boss" or something.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/106297https://forums.opera.com/post/106297Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:01:05 GMT