1868759 - Unable to Highlight a single URL text from a PDF file

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 1.pdf

Found in

• Nightly 122.0a1 (2023-12-07)

Affected versions

• Nightly 122.0a1 (2023-12-07)

Affected platforms

• ALL

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a PDF with multiple links. (Attached file)
2. Enable the Highlight tool.
3. Highlight just one word or Row with a link.

Expected result

• Users should be able to highlight just one word or row of text even if its a Link.

Actual result

• Trying to highlight just one word, will highlight everything down to that area.

Regression range
Not Applicable

Comment 1

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2023-12-07_11h51_39.mp4

@calixte is this issue related to the PDF file ? should we close this one as invalid ?
Should we be able to Highlight specific text more easily ? in this case the URLs ?

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

IIRC we have a bug similar to this related to text selection.

Comment 3

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Maybe I'm thinking of bug 770446.

Comment 6

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] [Editor] Disable annotation layer when highlighting (bug 1868759) (#17702)

Comment 7

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Nightly build 125.0a1 (2024-02-25), this also fixes the other issues like Highlighting over an editable field.

Comment 8

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:calixte, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox124 to wontfix.

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Comment 9

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

It has already been uplifted: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1883050

Comment 10

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Beta 124.0b7.