265124 - Cursor position indicator in text entry frozen to left margin

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Nesius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922

The flashing cursor-position marking bar (whatever you call it. :) is displayed
at the beginning of a text entry box.  However, as one types in it, the
flashing cursor stays on the left margin.  In all other respects text entry
works fine.. I just can't never be sure where the cursor really is because it is
stuck to the left-hand side of the text input box.

I originally submitted this to the gtk folks because I thought it was a gtk bug.
 However, further testing showed gtk was working fine and I also learned mozilla
apparantly doesn't use the gtk textentry stuff stuff anyway.  



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Mozilla
2. Click in URL entry box
3. Note cursor is already flashing on the far left
4. Start typing
5. Observe cursor position indicator is stationary.

Actual Results:  
Cursor is still frozen to left-hand side of text input box. 

Expected Results:  
Cursor should have moved as I typed.

It really makes it hard to use mozilla when the text input cursor is never in
the right place.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Robert Nesius]

I root-caused the problem to be using an older version of gcc.  Using a newer
version resolved the issue. 

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

We don't know what fixed this worksforme