1449486 - Selected text in header from network panel displays exactly like unselected text

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect, P3)

Description

[Vincent MONIER]

Attachment: ff-console-display.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

Open up the Firefox console (F12) and get to any page
Go to the Network tab
Click any request
Click the Headers tab
Now try to select any value of any request or response header and copy it


Actual results:

The display for selected and unselect text is exactly the same: blue background with white text. This means that you have no idea whether you've selected something or not.
Hence, copying a request header value is utterly difficult. The only way I found to know what you have selected in the "value" field of a header is to click that field, then blindly select text, then press "arrow down" (or "arrow up") key on the keyboard so the focus goes to another field, and then, you can see what you've selected in the original field (the selection remains blue background+white font while non-selected text is white background white font).


Expected results:

Why not leaving the default color scheme like for any other text field? Usually, black font + white background for non-selected and blue background + white font *only* for selected text?

Comment 1

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

I can not reproduce this issue on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
as only the selected item has a blue background. Do you have an specific prefs set that may be effecting this?

Comment 2

[Vincent MONIER]

The same issue occurs at work and home and there's no option I can remind of that I would have set at both places. Are there some pref names (like in about:config or so) that I would need to check then?

Comment 3

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

Confirming with Nightly on Linux.

At first this wasn't a text field with a caret, as everything was selected, but right-click>copy didn't do anything.

The way I managed to properly copy is right-clicking (which doesn't always work, depending on where the cursor is on the line), choosing select all, then right-clicking again, and choosing "copy".

Comment 4

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Fixing bug 1447267 could also help with this issue.

Honza