312460 - Cursor not visible in "Report A Broken Web Site" dialog (Beta 2)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Reporter, defect)

Description

[agarberisoft]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Open the "Report A Broken Web Site" dialog
In the 2 text boxes ("Describe Problem:" and "Email (Optional):") , the cursor
is almost not visible.
You can write and delete characters, but the cursor appears only for a fraction
of second when you stop typing, then it return invisible. Clicking around shows
the same beaviour: the cursor is placed where you click and you can enter text,
but you cannot see the cursor (you have to remember where it is!).

I'm using a notebook (IBM ThinkPad R31) with Windows 2000 SP4 (Italian).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open "Report A Broken Web Site" dialog (under the "Help" menu)
2. click on a text box

Actual Results:  
The cursor is not visible (but you can type)

Expected Results:  
The cursor should be visible

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051013
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005101321

I see the same.

Comment 2

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051013
Firefox/1.4.1

Same here.  Confirming

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Does anyone have a regressionwindow for this ?

Comment 4

[u63580]

Cursor is unreliable (appears briefly, flashes a lot then vanishes) at least
back to branch build 20051001

Comment 5

[u63580]

Branch build 20050927 definitely shows a cursor, but it is still not right.  It
appears for only brief periods - not the smooth flashing you'd expect.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Robert, can you look into this.

Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

the blinking cursor part is a dupe (can't find the #)

Comment 8

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

There are a bunch of caret blinking bugs, like bug 208446. I doubt this is a
recent regression, and it's almost certainly not limited to Reporter. Can anyone
confirm that this has always been a problem for this dialog?

Comment 9

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> There are a bunch of caret blinking bugs, like bug 208446. I doubt this is a
> recent regression, and it's almost certainly not limited to Reporter. Can anyone
> confirm that this has always been a problem for this dialog?
Yes, from day one on

Comment 10

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

As gavin said in comment 8, this is unlikely a reporter bug.  I can't imagine
any place in the code where we do something that could cause this to happen.

IMHO this is an XUL Widget issue (same with that freezing window deal).

Comment 11

[agarberisoft]

With the new 1.5 RC1 the bug is still there.

Note that I never found similar troubles with any site.

Comment 12

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 314917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[agarberisoft]

Possible solution!

I changed Theme and the bug went away!
It seems that there is a bug in the dafault fireox theme.
I tried with "Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)", "Aquatint" and "Littlefox" and no one shows the bug.
Returning to default theme, returns the bug.

Firefox 1.5 RC1 (Italian)
Windows 2000 SP4 (Italian)
Themes updated to 6 Nov 2005.

Comment 14

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I suspect this should be fixed now after the fix for bug 287813 (this was a fix for trunk, not branch).

Comment 15

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060527 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006052712 [cairo]

Yes, this works now

fixed on trunk