371905 - Google Toolbar highlighted words in textarea prevents caret browsing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256989

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ourasi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

If I have highlighted words (by Google Toolbar) in textfield, I cannot move caret over those words.

- Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.0.20061204W beta: http://www.google.com/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search "give feedback" (have Google Toolbar installed)

2. Goto http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index-2.0b1.html and write following text "Give detailed comments field":

"How Can You Help Test Firefox 2 Beta 1?
Give Feedback cannot move caret over Feedback"

3. Click "Toggle highlighting of search terms on this page"-button in Google Toolbar.


Actual Results:  
Cannot browse over highlighted words with caret. 

Expected Results:  
Should be possible to move caret.

Picture can be found in:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b239/ourasi/Bugs/Bug_GoogleToolbar.png

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is basically the same as bug 256989, the Google toolbar uses similar code for this.