346676 - Text edit cursor changed to a weird one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288839

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Maxim Radugin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060730 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060730 BonEcho/2.0b1

When text edit field gets focus, normal text edit cursor ("|") changes to cursor with some some extra pixels to the right top of the main line.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2. Click on "search" text edit field

Actual Results:  
As described in details.

Expected Results:  
Expected to see normal "|" text edit cursor.

Comment 1

[Maxim Radugin]

Attachment: Example of the weird cursor

Comment 2

[James Ross]

That's the bi-directional insertion point. The little pin sticking out near the top points to the left when in RTL mode. I don't know what triggers it, though, as the insertion point is perfectly normal for Wikipedia here.

Comment 3

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338524 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338524 ***

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Not a dupe of bug 338524, see bug 338524 comment 9.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 288839 ***