268092 - spaces mess up cursor position in location bar after 10.3.6 upgrade

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Calmus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

This issue is new after loading the 10.3.6 upgrade. When typing in the location
bar, spaces make the insertion cursor move slightly to the right. Typing more
and more spaces (as when doing a search) make the cursor position track farther
and farther to the right. Form text fields are also affected but not as
dramatically as is the menu bar. In a text field, the incorrect position is
reset after reaching the end of a line. Stray characters can appear at the end
of the line, though when the beginning of a word appears on that line.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to 10.3.6.
2. Type in menu bar or text field using spaces.

Actual Results:  
Cursor advances past actual insertion postion.

Expected Results:  
Cursor tracks with insertion position

Comment 1

[Mike Calmus]

Attachment: Screen shot showing distortion

The attached screen shot shows the cursor position being off. Also, towards the
right side of the picture there is left over text and highlighting (in pink)
from the URL in the location bar before typing the search text.

Comment 2

[Mike Calmus]

It seems that the OS hadn't fully loaded its fonts or something before I
launched Mozilla. After quitting Mozilla and re-launching the app, things
returned back to normal. I don't know if this should still stay as a bug to
better deal with a no fonts situation, but luckily it's not truly related to 10.3.6.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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