302175 - Bad caret position in textareas

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288047

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

In textareas, the caret is often incorrectly positioned (such as currently, when
I'm typing this). This makes form editing very difficult.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the above URL.
2. Type English text in "Details" until the end of the line.
Actual Results:  
The caret gets too far from its correct position.

Expected Results:  
The caret should be just after the character that has just been typed.

This problem occurs only with multiline textareas.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Possibly extension related? Does this occur in safe mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: Display problem (shift in text position)

Yes, this also occurs in safe mode. In fact, I think the problem isn't related
only to forms. A shift in text position also appears in normal paragraphs, for
instance on <http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/index.fr.html#emacs>. I've attached a
snapshot; look at the right part of the paragraph.

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

> In fact, I think the problem isn't related
> only to forms. A shift in text position also appears in normal paragraphs, for
> instance on <http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/index.fr.html#emacs>. I've attached a
> snapshot; look at the right part of the paragraph.

This looks like bug 288047.

Comment 4

[Vincent Lefevre]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 288047 ***