259814 - Find highlighting disables point-in-text clicking in input fields

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 256989

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Eric Stevens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

If you find text, have the "Hilight" button turned on, and that text appears
within an input field, you cannot click to place the input cursor in the middle
of the found text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Browse to a page with an input field
2.Use the find window to search for text that appears in one of the <input> fields
3.Turn on hilighting
4.try to click in the middle of the hilighted text within that input field

Actual Results:  
your input cursor appears at the wrong spot

Expected Results:  
place the input cursor at the correct location

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a bug in the "highlight" functionality.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is pretty major...

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

-> find toolbar

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 256989?

Comment 5

[chris hofmann]

need to try and deal with this somehow... 

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

One solution is to disable the option when the selection is controlled by an
editor...

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256989 ***