1030056 - Inspector, lose :hover, if child-element was selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 985517

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[friedrich]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140608211828

Steps to reproduce:

I visit 
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/
and start Firefox SiteInspector to look at the Element "#site-nav".

Now with Firefox Inspector, I activate the :hover state of "#site-nav > li". 
First i click in Inspector on the Element "<a href="/de/firefox/extensions/">",
then i try to click on the Element "<ul class="two-col">"



Actual results:

The Inspector loses my activated :hover state 


Expected results:

i think, the hover state should stay activated, as long as i deactivate it.

Comment 1

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

This is an interesting bug, unsure why clicking on the anchor element preserves hover but then clicking on the ul element removes it? cc'ing Joe and Patrick.

Comment 2

[Heather Arthur [:harth]]

It loses it because you're clicking on a sibling. This was by design, we only wanted to preserve it if you navigated up and down the hierarchy. There's discussion in bug 985517