Chrome and touch screen annoyance

lviz

lviz

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I've got an Asus T100 win 8.1 touch screen laptop. During the weekend Chrome started doing stupid stuff:

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Firefox and the OS work fine, so that's not the magnifying feature of the OS. Chrome does that on nearly every link, and it's especially bad on FB. FB's basically unusable with the touch screen at the moment. Stuff like that is OK on a small device like a phone, but of no use on the Asus. I tried messing with settings, but found nothing that worked. Anyone know how to turn that magnifying feature off?

Edit; seems to be somewhat frequent and related to an update.
 
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I'm running the Chrome beta on 4.4.2 and I haven't seen that yet. I do see it on every other link I touch in Dolphin browser though, and haven't been able to find a way to disable it.
 
pcwood said:
I'm running the Chrome beta on 4.4.2 and I haven't seen that yet. I do see it on every other link I touch in Dolphin browser though, and haven't been able to find a way to disable it.
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This is on desktop version, not mobile. The Asus T100TA has a full Windows 8. As far as I know, I've got the latest stable Chrome version in it. I know that many mobile browsers have that feature, there it's pretty useful. This is the first time I've seen this feature tried on a desktop browser, and hopefully the last time also. People are pretty mad at Google in the thread I linked to. And no wonder, as the browser is basically unusable for those affected. I had to go back to using Firefox. I also tried Opera, but it's just an ugly Chrome skin nowadays.
 
lviz said:
This is on desktop version, not mobile. The Asus T100TA has a full Windows 8. As far as I know, I've got the latest stable Chrome version in it. I know that many mobile browsers have that feature, there it's pretty useful. This is the first time I've seen this feature tried on a desktop browser, and hopefully the last time also. People are pretty mad at Google in the thread I linked to. And no wonder, as the browser is basically unusable for those affected. I had to go back to using Firefox. I also tried Opera, but it's just an ugly Chrome skin nowadays.
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Ah, didn't catch the part about it being desktop. All I can say is that when I do see it, it's maddeningly annoying. Hopefully they get it fixed...
 
Chrome on my Acer W700 8.1 tablet has been wonky on and off ever since google first introduced the metro mode.

I still think IE got it right for touchscreen devices on windows, but I refuse to use it :bleh:
 
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