1608409 - Improve web page text selection

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Axel]

Attachment: Text selection cumbersome.gif

Currently, text selection is quite cumbersome from time to time. When elements have padding, margin or any other visual distances, these distances are ignored by Firefox and text selection is extended to areas not even close to the mouse cursor:

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May I suggest to implement an improved text selection that’s considering computed visual distances?

My animation has been taken from this (random) web page:

https://www.samsung.com/de/tvs/full-hd-k5179/UE32K5179SSXZG/

Comment 1

[Alin Ilea, Desktop QA]

Hi,

I will move this over to a component. If this is not the correct component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug has a release status flag that shows some version of Firefox is affected, thus it will be considered confirmed.