In Chrome OS Canary or Dev right now, a new developer flag called Focus Follows Cursor will cause your mouse cursor to automatically focus and activate whatever open window you’re hovering over. As you can see in the example below, I hover over Google Docs and then over the Chromebook’s text app to demonstrate how the cursor begins to blink in each one accordingly and allows me to paste text without clicking whatsoever.
By visiting the developer flags section of your browser at chrome://flags and enabling this, followed by a quick restart, you’ll also be able to enjoy this new feature. There’s no word on when this will come to everyone via Chrome OS Stable – the out-of-the-box experience all users receive with their devices, but when it does (probably over the next few months), I feel this may give users mixed feelings.
