266466 - pushing CTRL key to select sector(s) in webpage and moving mouse away from sector (holding CTRL and mouse clicked) breaks subsequent text selection

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Reinis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

I hold CTRL key and click with pointer in webpage to selet sector. I do not let
mouse button up. Then i move mouse out from that blue sector (i do not let mouse
button up) and then, when i am out of that sector, i release mouse button or
CTRL key. Result - normal text selection crashes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Push CTRL (do not let button up)
2.Click with left mouse button (but do not release button up) somewhere on
webpage to select sector (holding CTRL)
3.Continue to hold CTRL and left mouse button
4. Move out pointer from that sector (continuing with pushed left mouse button)
5. Release left mouse button and then release CTRL

Actual Results:  
You can't select text with one click and mouse move


Expected Results:  
that i would be able to select text

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can confirm the bug, although step 5 is different for me. I have to release
the CTRL first and then the left mouse button.

I can reproduce the bug in this bugzilla page, by beginning the selection in one
of the comments and ending the selection in the yellow block at the bottom of
this page (and following the 5 steps described, except for step 5, which is
different for me).

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

To avoid misunderstandings, I used:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041214
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Reinis]

(In reply to comment #2)
> To avoid misunderstandings, I used:
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041214
> Firefox/1.0+

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can confirm the bug, although step 5 is different for me. I have to release
> the CTRL first and then the left mouse button.
> 
> I can reproduce the bug in this bugzilla page, by beginning the selection in one
> of the comments and ending the selection in the yellow block at the bottom of
> this page (and following the 5 steps described, except for step 5, which is
> different for me).

Yes, my 5. step is incorrect - correct: release "CTRL" and only then "left mouse
button".

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 339059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Uri Bernstein]

I can reproduce this with a recent trunk build on Mac:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060522 Minefield/3.0a1

Comment 6

[John Stephen]

After the bug is triggered, control-clicking in a sector seems to reset things back to normal such that drag selecting text works once again.

Comment 7

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.