290653 - (highlighting) Unable to highlight and maintain it, to print just a section of the page.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[onederer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I can highlight some text with the left mouse button, but as soon as I remove my
finger from the button, the highlight disappears.  This makes it impossible to
copy just the desired text. It forces me to waste paper and copy the entire page
instead. This seems to be consistent with FireBird and FireFox.  I am comparing
this with Outlook Express, and MSIE, which holds it's highlight so that it can
be copied, or held for printing purposes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Push down the left mouse button
2.Sweep over desired text that needs to be highlighted.
3.Remove finger from left mouse button.

Actual Results:  
After the above steps, when the finger is removed from the left mouse button,
the deired section that was highlighted, disappears.  So I can't do a CTRL-P, or
go to the File section to work with the print functions. Therefore, I can't do a
printing of just the selected text.

Expected Results:  
It should have left the highlighted text as it is, so that a print function can
be selected.  I should disappear if I click anywhere on the page, when the left
mouse button is depressed again.

There are also some pages in the browser that I can't highlight at all.  This
quite different that MSIE. Therefore, when that happens, I can't highlight a
section and 'copy' it.

Comment 1

[onederer]

For people with arthritic hands, this lack of a feature can be quite a
impediment for them. To get it done, one has to be an acrobat with his hands.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 3

[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.