250067 - cannot mark text on website

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

I cannot mark text on the above website. Works fine with Opera and IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Is this at all valid..

The site loads this script to prevent selection and context menus:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.oncontextmenu = function(){return false}
if(document.layers) {
    window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
    window.onmousedown = function(e){
        if(e.target==document)return false;
    }
}
else {
    document.onmousedown = function(){return false}
}
</script>


You can prevent sites from blocking at least the context menu in preferences:

Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Scripts & Plugins:
Uncheck "Allow Scripts to...": "Disable or replace context menus"

Reload and you can use "select all" and "copy" from the context menu.

If you disable javascript entirely (for the browser), you can select as you wish
on the page.

Comment 2

[Florian Effenberger]

Oh, sorry, didn't notice that. Then the other browsers make mistakes. ;)

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

are the other browsers javascript enabled?
Related: bug 174795

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

a workaround: see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167396#c11

Comment 5

[Florian Effenberger]

They are.