Closed Bug 325155 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Cursor jumps to the beginning of a line

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: sy1234, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051129 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051129 Firefox/1.5 Cursoring in a textbox has changed. Regular cursoring now results in the cursor hopping to the beginning of a line, making it infuriating to do common editing. Now a lot of extra cursoring, ctrl-cursoring or mouse clicking (ugh) is required to edit the middle of a "column" of several lines of text. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type two equal-length lines of text into an edit field. 2. Cursor to the middle of the topmost sentence. 3. Cursor down. Actual Results: The cursor hops to the beginning of the line. Expected Results: The cursor should stay where it is horizontally, but move down one line.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060128 Firefox/1.5 ID:2006012803 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060129 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006012914 WFM
Works for me, with: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.7 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Closing this bug, as it's resolved with the most recent version.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
It seems to have broken again with: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060201 Firefox/1.5.0.1 I won't re-open this unless I get confirmation that someone else is seeing this problem.
I can confirm that this bug is present in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060310 Ubuntu/dapper Firefox/1.5.0.1
This bug seems to be resolved "for real" with a newer version of Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.5 I have made no changes in my extensions except to update them. It's possible it was an extension update that resolved a bug in an extension, or it was the Firefox update which resolved a bug in either Firefox or in an extension. =) Andy, would you try updating to see if this problem is also fixed for you?
(In reply to comment #5) > > Andy, would you try updating to see if this problem is also fixed for you? > Yep, works for me :)
As I commented in [url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343927]this bug[/url], I have this problem in 1.5.0.5. And, not only in Firefox, but also in Thunderbird.
FYI, there is a patch for this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198759
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