1880305 - Free Highlighting in PDFs while scrolling

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2024-02-14_17h08_37.mp4

Found in

• Nightly 124.0a1 (2024-02-14)

Affected versions

• Nightly 124.0a1 (2024-02-14)
• Beta 123.0b9
• Release 122

Affected platforms

• All

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any PDF in Firefox.
2. Enable the Highlight tool.
3. Start to Free Highlight and scroll the page using the Mouse wheel.

Expected result

• 1st. Option: The Highlight should cancel when the user starts scrolling the page.
• 2nd. Option: The Highlight should remain glued to the Mouse cursor as the user scrolls the page.

Actual result

• The Highlight remains at the top while the mouse cursor is further down the page.
  The user is still Highlighting stuff at the top but he is unable to see what he is highlighting if its already out of view.

Regression range
Not a Regression

Comment 1

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

When scrolling the bbox of the text layer is changing but we the mouse coordinates are still considered as relative the initial bounding box which is wrong.