1300218 - In touch enabled laptop, when text is selected with mouse, the selection markers (drops) are visible as it is done with finger

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1293483

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Abe - QA (:Abe_LV)]

Attachment: selection.png

[Pre-Requisites] 
touch screen laptop/surface pro
Use Nightly channel

about:config settings:
javascript.options.asyncstack; false
browser.tabs.remote.force-enable; true
layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled; true 

about:support shows
Multiprocess Windows 1/1 (Enabled by user)
about:support Asynchronous Pan/Zoom wheel input enabled; touch input enabled

[Steps to Reproduce]
1.Navigate to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
2.Select texts using your mouse.

[Actual Results]
Selection markers (drops) are displayed as it is selected by finger.

[Expected Results]
If user selects text by mouse, markers (drops) should not appear. But if it selected by finger, then boundary lines (drops) are expected at left and right end of the selected text. 

[Note]
This is not e10s specific but not reproducible in latest aurora.
I will update this bug soon with a regression range.

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Version  51.0a1
Build ID  20160902030222
Update Channel  nightly
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Actually this is already covered by bug 1293483.