Perhaps Chromium's behavior changed (or is changing) here? Testing the jsfiddle from comment 0: https://jsfiddle.net/zu0jpar2/ : * In Chrome 124 on Win11, I mostly am unable to select the text. (Clicking and dragging across the text has no effect. Double-clicking does select a word, but that's cheating.) * In Chrome 125 beta and 126dev on Win11, though, I'm able to select the text just fine. (Also Chrome 126dev on Ubuntu; haven't tested other Chrome versions there). (My Windows 11 testing is via BrowserStack which should be a relatively "stock" Win11 setup; and my Ubuntu testing is on my local machine.) So it looks like maybe
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Perhaps Chromium's behavior changed (or is changing) here? Testing the jsfiddle from comment 0: https://jsfiddle.net/zu0jpar2/ : * In Chrome 124 on Win11, I mostly am unable to select the text. (Clicking and dragging across the text has no effect. Double-clicking does select a word, but that's cheating.) * In Chrome 125 beta and 126dev on Win11, though, I'm able to select the text just fine. (Also Chrome 126dev on Ubuntu; haven't tested other Chrome versions there). (My Windows 11 testing is via BrowserStack which should be a relatively "stock" Win11 setup; and my Ubuntu testing is on my local machine.) So it looks like maybe Chrome 125 and newer have fixed this to match us, perhaps?