256059 - mouse selection of text causes selects not visible menu's and they are shown as blue over the text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201844

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[Eduard Witteveen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

When i drag with the mouse, to select text, blue boxes appear in the screen.

Expected behaviour:
The text will be selected(blue highlighting) and nothing else will happen to the
current view on the page

Current behaviour:
The text is selected, but also some hidden menu's will be shown(at least i
expect that this is causing th bue boxes) 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




just go to the site http://www.tweakers.net/ and make a movement with the mouse
to select the text to the bottom, when all the text is selected with the
movement to the right-bottom move the mouse to the right-up direction

screenshots can be found at: http://www.nergens.org/download/selection-bug.rtf
(which kind of documents are prefered by you folks?)

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 256060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Your RTF is 56540 KiB large!!! RTF/DOC saves all images uncompressed, to
compare: your file RAR packed is only 1 MB. Please use JPG/PNG pictures for
screenshots.

So: Only your 2. and 3. screenshot are necessary, please attach these as JPG
images to your bug.

Confirming with Mozilla 1.8a3 release/build 2004081709 on WinNT4.
URL: http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/33895

Comment 3

[Eduard Witteveen]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Your RTF is 56540 KiB large!!! RTF/DOC saves all images uncompressed, to
> compare: your file RAR packed is only 1 MB. Please use JPG/PNG pictures for
> screenshots.
> 
Ooops,.. i gzip and bzipped the file, the files can be found at:
http://www.nergens.org/download/selection-bug.rtf

Comment 4

[Eduard Witteveen]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Your RTF is 56540 KiB large!!! RTF/DOC saves all images uncompressed, to
> compare: your file RAR packed is only 1 MB. Please use JPG/PNG pictures for
> screenshots.
> 
Ooops,.. i gzip and bzipped the file, the files can be found at:
http://www.nergens.org/download/

Comment 5

[Jesiah S]

I see this problem in LInux 2004121205.  It seems you can select images that are
hidden(visibility:hidden).  Dupe of bug 201844.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201844 ***