332131 - getSelection() in firefox 1.0, 1.5, 1.6a

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310241

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Anton Kuzmin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Code:
d=window.getSelection();
alert(d);

In firefox 1.0 and 1.6a this code pops up the selected text. In 1.5 however it doesn't work. I know why. I have read some recent bugreports about it.

1.6a:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060329 Firefox/1.6a1

You can check it here: http://joemaller.com/2005/04/24/getselection-workaround/
On the first demo.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This was fixed between 2005-10-08 and 2005-10-11, and so I found bug 310241.
This is a duplicate of that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310241 ***