1072895 - If a link is covered by text, long-press activates link menu rather than text selection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Text Selection, defect)

Description

[r.lupton]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140830210550

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit a page with overlapping divs, with links in the lower div which are visually completely covered by text in an upper div. 

I noticed this bug using the FastMail webmail app; I have reproduced it in an ugly but simple form here: http://ricklupton.name/firefoxtest/

2. Try to select text by long-press and drag


Actual results:

The menu for the obscured link is activated (with options to "open in new tab" etc)


Expected results:

Visible text should have been selected

Comment 1

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

wfm: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bdif9f098j1puxv/bug1072895_test.png?dl=0

Comment 2

[r.lupton]

interesting, is there any other information I can add to help figure out what the difference is?

doesn't wfm: http://ricklupton.name/firefoxtest/Screenshot_2014-09-25-12-47-25.png

Comment 3

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Oh, I see you're testing using v32 ... this is probably fixed in v35 nightly (which I'm using) as a result of completion of bug 1021804.

Comment 4

[r.lupton]

I see, yes installed nightly and it works there. Thanks.