Web Select Option Gone After Recent Edge Update

Anonymous
2023-06-04T16:11:02+00:00

MS Edge Version: 114.0.1823.37

For some reason, I no longer have the Web Select option in the right-click context menu. I still have Web Capture, but Web Select is no longer there. Did MS remove this feature, or is it a bug?

Microsoft Edge | Other | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-12T21:31:30+00:00

    Nice directions to enable the old screenshot capability, but that is not the same thing as Web Select, which lets you actually select text and other HTML bits in context.

    In fact, all the screenshot does is an older version of what the much newer Web Capture does: grab pixels to store an image.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-12T22:32:48+00:00

    After proceeding the above tricks and restarting the browser, if you press Ctrl+Shift+X, you will get as below mentioned screenshot.

    If you click Screenshot button, you will get the Web Select option as below mentioned screenshot.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-13T06:09:43+00:00

    I believe that it's working for you that way. Unfortunately for me, that's not what happens. When I:

    1. Add the following to the Edge shortcut's Target: --enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect
    2. Close the browser and start form freshly updated shortcut
    3. Enable screenshot in Flags (and split screen, although I'm not sure how that's related, and it was already enabled for me even when set to just "Default")
    4. Restart browser

    All that happens is that the normal "Web Capture" icon goes away, Ctrl-Shift-X does nothing, and instead I see the old Screenshot icon (its tooltip states that it is activated with Ctrl-Shift-S, which does work). When I click on the Screenshot icon, I get a big square crosshair (like in your bottom screenshot) but the menu that appears still shows only Capture Web Area and Capture Full Page. There is no Web Select button. For fun I even tried opening the new shortcut running as administrator and the behavior was unchanged.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-14T11:49:04+00:00

    As ShdwlynxAgain said, although I appreciate the detailed response, this did not resolve my issue.
    Ctrl+Shift-X doesn't give me anything. I have to go into the toolbar dropdown and select the Screenshot (Ctrl+Shift+S), and only shows Capture Web Area and Capture Full Page.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-14T16:00:15+00:00

    Then open edge-> type edge://flags/#edge-screenshot in URL bar, then change the Microsoft Edge Split Screen and Microsoft Edge Screenshot from Default/Disabled to Enabled as mentioned in below screenshot.

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    Restart the browser. Click Ctrl+Shift+X to use web select feature.

    This is the missing piece! THANK YOU!

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