287873 - Double-click no longer allows text select - highlight flashes on then quits.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike McVay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Firefox 1.0 handled text-select-by-double-click ok - like IE and other MS apps
still do. Current Firefox updates do not allow select highlight to remain - on
second click the highlight flashes on then stays off, preventing text-drag. Have
to use IE now for that or use cut-and-paste. Same on all URLs. The reference URL
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi  is exception in its email address
and password fields - select works ok in those fields but not for any ordinary
text outside those boxes. Disabled all Firefox extensions to be sure - no change.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Double-click or click-drag-click over any text.
2.Text is highligted momentarily then disappears on second click.
3.

Actual Results:  
Text highligting went away after second click

Expected Results:  
Highlighting should have stayed.

Perhaps related to 265398 or 266561? I notice that text select works ok in the
text boxes of this form just as with the reference URL cited above, but again
not on the text ouside the text boxes. Environment is XP Pro, Version 5.1.2600
Service Pack 2 Build 2600. Current XP build was before Firefox 1.0, I think.
Noticed problem after first Firefox update but waited 'til after second update
to see if the bug were noticed and fixed. Could there be some Windows setting I
don't know about? For what it is worth, File Folders setting is for double-click
rather than single (again to allow dragable selection). Works the same with
touchpad and with PS-2 mouse.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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