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. If you have a new Windows 8 touchscreen laptop (or tablet PC), you don't have to give up on your favorite browser.
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.