Follow Melanie on Twitter at For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook. One thing Ive noticed is, on Windows Chrome I can scroll certain elements ONLY when using the touch screen. Interestingly, when I was signing up for the forums I opened the system properties to refresh my memory on the computer stats and I saw that under the category 'Pen and Touch:' it says 'No Pen or Touch Input is available for This. It does not work in any app, browsers, or folders. Read more of Melanie Pinola’s Tech IT Out blog and follow the latest IT news at ITworld. That means its running itself in browsers like FireFox, IE, Chrome. Everything else on the touch screen works, except for scrolling.

That's a great thing for all touchscreen computer owners, even those few who might buy a Chromebook Pixel Now that Google has announced its own touchscreen laptop, the Chromebook Pixel, we'll likely see some touch-friendly enhancements for the Chrome browser. Although the extension isn't perfect (there are bugs to work out, such as not being able to close the keyboard sometimes), it makes working on Google Chrome with just a touchscreen much easier. It can also open up the touch keyboard for the URL bar. Instead, download the Chrome Virtual Keyboard extension, which pops up a virtual keyboard for you to tap whenever you're typing in a form field. As it stands, you can tap in a form field or the search bar and then tap the Windows 8 touch keyboard icon at the bottom of your screen to enter information, but that's clunky and slow. Then scroll a bit further to find the Enable touch initiated drag and drop setting and enable it if you wish this setting lets you drag-and-drop elements by long-pressing them with your fingers.įorm (and search) fields are another annoyance you can fix about Chrome's lack of touchscreen support. To enable these settings, enter chrome://flags in Chrome's address bar.Then scroll down until you find these two settings: Touch Optimized UI and Enable touch events. The settings make tabs and menu items, for example, easier to select and more button-like. Hidden within Chrome's experimental Labs are settings that make everything you can touch in the browser a bit easier to select. These experimental features and extensions can make using Chrome without a keyboard more doable-at least until Google makes Chrome natively more touch-friendly.

This caused an issue where you can touch the screen to select. If you have a new Windows 8 touchscreen laptop (or tablet PC), you don't have to give up on your favorite browser. A: Google submitted an update, version 70, which by default turned off touch screen support. As such, the touch experience on Google's browser really sucks: Tabs are hard to close, icons in the bookmarks bar are hard to tap, and scrolling using touch is a struggle. Unlike Internet Explorer 10, Chrome was not designed for touchscreens.

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