Closed Bug 1716064 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

middle mouse button scrolling cleans text selection on Windows

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Firefox 89
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1714810

People

(Reporter: ololuki, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Select text on webpage with mouse left button.
Click mouse middle button to scroll (in the area of webpage).

Actual results:

Selection of text is lost (if middle mouse button is clicked on webpage area; if middle button is clicked on scrollbar area it works fine and selection is preserved)

Expected results:

Selection of text should be preserved (even if middle mouse button is clicked on area of webpage).

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Selection' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Selection
Product: Firefox → Core
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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