276630 - Weird highlighting in text boxes.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Jon B]

The best example I can give is in gmail.  If I compose a message, press "save
changes" to save a draft internally to gmail, and then click in the message
somewhere else, it will highlight a paragraph in inverted color as if i had
selected it, but it is not actually selected, and doesn't deselect when i click
elsewhere.  i can still select other sections of the text normally at the same time.

Comment 1

[Jon B]

(In reply to comment #0)

Of course now I can't reproduce it, but it happens a lot in different text boxes.

Comment 2

[Jon B]

Attachment: Example

The paragraph was "weird-selected" and then i selected the lower text normally,
but the weird-selection didn't go away.  I think it always selects entire
paragraphs, but I can't promise.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Jon B]

(In reply to comment #5)
> If you can still reproduce
> this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
> copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
> you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
> (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
> reproduction information if you have it.

I'm amazed that this hasn't been reported by anyone else.  I have had this
problem consistently for a long time on several computers.  It is difficult to
reproduce, but I will keep this in mind when I see it next, and try to give more
details and a screenshot.  Perhaps it's related to an extension that I use on
every computer instead of the core Firefox code?  

I've just learned to live with it and don't notice it as much anymore.  That's
not a good thing.  :-)

Comment 7

[Jon B]

I believe this has been fixed.  I haven't noticed it lately.

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, that's good, even if it's odd that only you saw it.