300418 - Incorrect continued text selection dragging after Preview in Wikipedia

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258287

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Trogdor]

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

When I am editing a Wikipedia article and I press the "Show Preview" button,
once the preview is shown, text is often incorrectly being selected in the edit
box as though I were dragging around in the edit window with the left mouse button.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test
2.  Click the "tab" entitled "Edit this page" at the top.  Let the editing page
load.
3.  Scroll down below the edit box and click the "Show Preview" button.  Let the
preview page load.
4.  Scroll down so the edit box is on the screen.
5.  Click somewhere outside the edit box toward the left.
6.  Move the mouse to the right so it's in the edit box.  Notice the browser is
behaving as though the LMB is depressed constantly.

I've also had this happened while fooling around with the tabs while editing
Wikipedia articles, and also just now on this Firefox bug report web page, but
have not got a good set of repro steps.


Actual Results:  
When moving the mouse around in the text edit box, the text within the box is
constantly selected, just as though I were dragging to select the text with the
left mouse button.

Expected Results:  
Not select the text while I'm moving the mouse around.  Since I'm not holding
down the LMB.

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050710
Firefox/1.0+
I can confirm this on Deer Park Alpha 2.

Comment 2

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258287 ***