339567 - Selecting text in large text-box sometimes blanks out the whole field

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[brad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

Occasionally, regardless of what site, if you type  a bunch of stuff and, say, you go to select the text, once you click (I can't tell if you have to also let go, click and hold or if either will cause it) the text in the large text box (the multi-line ones such where the body of a message goes) the entire box will suddenly disappear visually.
It's still there, you can select text and type etc etc but the only way I can get around this temporarily is to use the preview function (of message boards, for example) then hit Back to return to the page. Once you're back, you can see it again.

When it disappears, it seems to show whatever the background colour of the table or the webpage (if not in a table).


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type some text in a text box like this
2. Click an arbitrary place, maybe try click and hold to select text or just click to place the cursor
3.

Actual Results:  
It's intermittent but either doesn't happen or happens just as I described (eg: no partial 'invisibility')

Expected Results:  
n/a. it's obvious.

This does not happen in Camino 1.0.1 on the same computer

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 1 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!