The newest model of Chrome (Model 131.0.6778.86) has addressed a problem within the browser that broke the flexibility to spotlight textual content on some web sites over the weekend, Google’s Scott Westover confirmed to The Verge in an e mail.
We examined the change, and located that we have been capable of spotlight textual content inside tales on websites like Bloomberg and The Verge, and within the submit composer on X, each in up to date Home windows and Mac variations of Chrome. It’s not clear whether or not the change applies to different Chromium-based browsers, corresponding to Arc, which continues to be affected in our testing.
Westover says the replace has gone out to all customers. To see the change, you’ll must restart Chrome; if textual content highlighting nonetheless isn’t working, you possibly can test the Chrome model quantity within the app’s “About” menu.
The problem, which cropped up with the Chrome 131 replace final week, was associated to the best way the choice styling device Tailwind CSS applied textual content highlighting. Customers affected by it may nonetheless choose textual content, there was simply no visible indication you’d finished it.