274104 - Firefox 1.0 on Windows places an insertion point where one does not belong

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[William]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If I view a webpage and click some static text on it, Firefox may place a
blinking insertion point at the spot where I clicked. Firefox does not do this
on all of my computers, but ones where the insertion point does appear, it will
appear reliably.

The operating systems on these computers vary widely, but all are somewhere in
the Windows NT-98-2000 range.

Refreshing the page or navigating back and forth will remove the insertion point
until I click text again.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View any webpage made of text or with text on it.
2. Try clicking some of the text.
3. Look for a blinking insertion point.

Actual Results:  
A blinking insertion point appears in the text of web pages on some of my
computers when I click on static text.

Expected Results:  
I don't think there should be a blinking insertion point presented in static
text. Obviously it isn't very useful.

I cannot narrow this down to any one thing. I can have two computers that are
nearly the same (maybe a difference in memory or hard disk size) but one will
exhibit the problem and another will not.

This does not happen in the full Mozilla 1.7 browser suite. I don't recall ever
seeing it happen on versions of Firefox prior to 1.0 either.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

You turned out Caret Browsing somehow.  Use F7 to turn it off.

Comment 2

[Mike Kowalski]

v

Comment 3

[William]

I sat down today and thought about having possibly turned on caret browsing and 
wondered if I had reported a bug in error. I played with the F7 key while in 
Firefox and clearly noted that I got a dialog box prompting me if I really 
wanted to turn caret browsing on. Until it was mentioned here, I had no idea 
such a feature even existed.

On machines where I have seen this problem I have never at any point received a 
prompt about turning on caret browsing nor have I ever pushed the F7 key while 
in Firefox. Other than customizing the toolbar, I haven't changed any setting I 
can think of that would turn caret browsing on. I cannot even FIND a setting 
other than the F7 key that would seem to turn the caret browsing on!

I think this bug needs to be investigated further, but I don't feel it is my 
place to change how it is presently being reported.