294298 - Print Preview Disables Highlighting After Use.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176611

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Plotnick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

On most sites, as far as i have tested, when you go to print preview, then close
out of it, highlighting is disabled.  Even select all does not highlight anything.

Sites such as http://www.cnn.com and http://www.msnbc.com and
http://www.microsoft.com are places that it does occur. On other sites such as
http://slashdot.org and http://www.mozilla.org and http://www.google.com the
problem does not occur.

I think the reason it does not occur on those pages listed is because the print
preview is a different "printer friendly" version of what the site actually is,
therefore causing a middle process to be executed for this conversion.  The
problem might be caused by a flag not being triggered? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(Optional) Before testing you can highlight something to make sure the
highlighting works

1. While on the designated site, go to the print preview (File>Print Preview)
2. Click the close button in the top right.
3. Try to highlight text, links, or pictures.

Actual Results:  
Nothing was highlighted, sometimes a circle with a line across it (like a no
smoking sign) comes up instead.

Expected Results:  
Highlighted the text.

Workaround: Re-navigate to the page and highlighting is re-enabled.
Theme: Normal
Computer: 3 Computers, all Windows XP with 1.0.4. Have _not_ tried any other O/S
or build.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176611 ***