325531 - highlighting text on some sites causes weird "bold" text to show up

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300982

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Nowacki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

On many sites, highlighting text in the page, especially when a link is present or immediately adjacent to the highlighted text, text in the highlighted area sometimes goes "bold."  It's not quite bold--just a little thicker and perhaps chunkier.  Scrolling down and scrolling back up (or reloading) usually fixes the problem until you highlight text again.

See URL for example screenshots

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site, for instance washingtonpost.com (but happens on other sites, too)
2. Highlight text and images, making sure to get a link or two in the highlighted area.

Actual Results:  
See weird, chunky text after removing highlight

Expected Results:  
Text should stay the same.

Comment 1

[Dan Nowacki]

Make sure to view the URL for screenshots of this behavior.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300982 ***