336445 - Marking text with mouse fails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Franz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7

Text selection does not work all the time when some text is already selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open testcase
2. Move mouse-pointer to pos. 1
3. Click left and hold
4. drag down to pos. 2
5. release button
6. move mouse pointer to pos. 3
7. click and hold 
8. drag up to pos. 4
Actual Results:  
1.-5: text is selected
6.-8: selection does not change

Expected Results:  
selection changes

Comment 1

[Franz]

Attachment: from the SPIEGEL (www.spiegel.de)

Comment 2

[Franz]

Attachment: How to move the mouse

Comment 3

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Can you reproduce this in the latest version of Firefox (1.5.0.3)?

Comment 4

[Franz]

Cannot reproduce this with 1.5.0.3

Comment 5

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Per Comment 4, WFM.