Open Bug 1417770 Opened 7 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Firefox text selection does not anchor properly

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: corydoras, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171112125346

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 57.0, macOS 10.13 (17A405)

1. Navigate to any page containing text
2. Double click on any word
3. Hold down shift and press the left arrow key


Actual results:

The text selection is reduced by one character on the right side.


Expected results:

The text selection should be extended by one character on the left side.

Following macOS text selection conventions, double-clicking on a word should leave the text selection with a flexible anchor. When the user uses a modify-selection key binding (shift-arrow key) the text selection should always be extended (and anchored on the opposite side). See the behavior in Safari, Chrome, TextEdit, etc.
Component: Untriaged → Selection
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe, this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: P3 → P5
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