312859 - Chrome caret winds up in directional mode (bidi) and gets stuck

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277701

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Mark Mentovai]

It's possible to force the chrome caret to erroneously display the directional
flag.  When a directional caret is displayed in chrome in a window, the caret
never loses its directional flag for chrome in the window.

The caret's mode changes when you get a directional caret in content, blur it,
and then open the Find toolbar.  To reproduce:

 - visit http://www.wikipedia.org/ , which uses directional styling
 - focus the caret on the Hebrew text below the search box, so the dotted line
   surrounds it
 - click in a chrome text field, note the caret is now directional
 - unfocus the Hebrew text.  The caret is still directional in chrome.
 - load a new direction-free page.  The caret is still directional in chrome.
 - open a new tab.  The caret is still directional in chrome.

Once the chrome caret goes directional, it's impossible for it to lose the flag.
 This seems wrong.  Other windows are not affected.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

Attachment: testcase

Hover the link to get a directional chrome caret.

Notice that the only bidi thing in this testcase is the URL as displayed in the statusbar. Also, turning the status bar off (in a new window), then laoding this testcase and hovering the link, does not affect the chrome caret.

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 277701. If there are no objections, I'll mark it as such.

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 277701. If there are no objections,
> I'll mark it as such.

No objections so far, so marking duplicate.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277701 ***