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Something I often find myself doing is drag and dropping text one website into another app (e.g. Notes). Using the trackpad, the process works as I expect it to.

However, when I use my external mouse (regular mouse, a Logitech G403), I have to do this:

  1. Select the text I want to drag
  2. Click and hold the left mouse button for about a second over the selected area
  3. Start dragging

Skipping step 2 will simply cause the OS to ignore my old selection and start a new one.

How can I disable this behavior so I can immediately start dragging a selected text area?

Tested in Safari and Edge browsers, Catalina 10.15.6

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  • How would the os know when your done dragging and to “drop” the text? How would it differentiate between one set of text snd selecting another? Does the existing copy/paste not fill your need?
    – Allan
    Commented Aug 12, 2020 at 7:52
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    Does this answer your question? How to disable text drag delay Comments say it stopped working at High Sierra; Tinkertool might still be able to do it, but it probably only adjusts the same defaults as Terminal. [Having said that, I shortened mine to 100ms years ago & it still works in Mojave].
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 12, 2020 at 8:00

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