1085104 - Selecting certain preferences in Options results in a flashing cursor (cosmetic)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Samuel Leslie]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20141019030207

Steps to reproduce:

Select any of numerous options (large majority) in the Options window by clicking the associated text to the right of the checkbox. For example, enable/disable the "Open new windows in a new tab instead" preference on the General page of Options.


Actual results:

The setting is correctly updated, however, a flashing text cursor is also seen at the location where the text was clicked.


Expected results:

Given this is not an interactive text widget (no text can be modified) it should probably not result in a flashing text input cursor.

Comment 1

[Samuel Leslie]

This is being tested on a 64-bit Firefox build; unconfirmed if the issue affects 32-bit Firefox builds.

Comment 2

[Cornel Ionce [:noni]]

I'm unable to reproduce this on latest Nightly.

Could you try to see if this reproduces using:
1. A clean profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2. Safe mode: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 3

[Loic]

Surely a 64-bit Firefox build issue. I'm not able to repro it with the 32-bit Nightly.

Comment 4

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

WFM on 36.0a1 x64 (2014-10-27) Win 7 x64

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

FWIW, this sounds like you have caret browsing turned on. In about:config, turn off accessibility.browsewithcaret and perhaps accessibility.browsewithcaret_shortcut_enabled, too.

Comment 6

[Samuel Leslie]

Confirm caret browsing was indeed the case. Apologies for the wastage of everyone's time on this thread.