281497 - Selecting text of a link sometimes follows the link

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050114

When I select text that belongs to a link (while pressing the mod1 key), the
selection is performed, but the link is also sometimes followed as soon as I
release the mouse button, as if I clicked on the link. The problem is not always
reproducible, even for a given link in a given page.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Vincent Lefevre]

Some additional information:

Of course, I always release the mouse button before releasing the mod1 key
(otherwise the link is always followed).

I could reproduce the problem from only two different pages. They contain no
javascript. Loading the first page in a different tab makes the problem
disappear. For the second page, the problem is always reproducible; I've just
noticed that the links have a target="_blank" attribute (but none of the links
in the first page have a target attribute).

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: testcase for the target="_blank" problem

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem for both GTK1 and GTK2 builds?

Comment 4

[Vincent Lefevre]

I use GTK2 builds only.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Right.  But could you test a single GTK1 build?  Over here the key/mouse
combination in question is used by the window manager, so I can't really test
this easily...

Comment 6

[Vincent Lefevre]

The configure script for GTK1 is broken ("libIDL 0.6.3 or higher is required."
though I have 0.8.3 with dev files). Are there official builds available
somewhere (for Linux/x86)?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Of course.  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Note that LibIDL 0.8 is not compatible with LibIDL 0.6, hence the configure
error.  This is clearly documented at http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html
(and the LibIDL 0.6 requirement is the same for GTK1 and GTK2 builds, last I
checked).

Comment 8

[Vincent Lefevre]

The URL was incorrect, but anyway. There's no problem with the gtk1 build
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227.

Comment 9

[Vincent Lefevre]

There's no problem either with the GTK2 build
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050301.

Comment 10

[Vincent Lefevre]

BTW, I've also noticed today that framed sites no longer worked with the "old"
version, and this is OK with the one I've just downloaded. I'm closing the bug.

Comment 11

[Vincent Lefevre]

In fact, the bug was due to the tabextensions.