Open Bug 1327776 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Style editor: elements are highlighted on the page when mouse is already far away from the selector (because highlight applies with delay)

Categories

(DevTools :: Style Editor, defect, P2)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Style Editor
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: arni2033, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [bad-timeouts]) 

>>>   My Info:   Win7_64, Nightly 49, 32bit, ID 20160526082509
STR_1:
1. Open http://www.sql.ru/forum/565250/kak-zapretit-perehod-k-elementam-stranicy-po-tab
2. Open style editor
3. Create new stylesheet with text  "td,body{color:black;}"  without quotes
4. Hover mouse over "body", stop movein mouse. Then after 0.5 second move mouse to content area.
  (It's tricky to reproduce, but it usually happens accidentally)
5. Wait 5 seconds

AR:  After a noticeable delay after Step 4, <body> element becomes highlighted
ER:  <body> shouldn't become highlighted at all, because the mouse pointer isn't over style editor
Component: Untriaged → Developer Tools: Style Editor
No longer blocks: 1277113
Inspector bug triage (filter on CLIMBING SHOES).
Priority: -- → P2
Product: Firefox → DevTools

I've been having this problem for a while, and it seems it's happening more often.

Being a webdev i have to constantly swirl the mouse pointer back to the inspector, wait a bit until the element gets un-highlighted, swirling over some elements a bit more because FF is now confused if there's a element highlighted or not... and then go on with the work.

a simple quick pass over the html elements in inspector tab is to trigger this, and having it open all day, it happens a lot :(

thanks for looking into it

Severity: normal → S3
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