273195 - Pressing up or down arrows leaves insertion point behind

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Scouten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When pressing the up or down arrows to move within the text of a web page, the
insertion point is not removed from the old location. Often many insertion
points are visible on the page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit any web page that's longer than one screenful.
2. Click on the page content (outside of any link) to place the flashing
insertion point cursor.
3. Press the down arrow multiple times, eventually triggering scrolling.

Actual Results:  
As the insertion point moves, it is not removed from old locations. Many
insertion points are visible on the page. (Only one is flashing.)

Expected Results:  
Insertion point should be removed from old locations.

Does not happen on Windows build of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.