377657 - Mouseover of multi-line links causes font weight of non-link text on second line to increase (until selected or redrawn)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300982

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nick Fagerlund]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

This bug is n/a on trunk (I credit Cairo), but since it still affects the 2.0.0.4pre builds*, I thought I'd post it anyhow. 

The summary/reproduction steps say it all: Mouse over a link that crosses a newline, and it'll distort the text following the link. 

Marking severity as trivial, since I can still read the uglified text.

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* Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070416 BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that your test page has a: a link that wraps across a linebreak and b: some non-link text filling out the rest of the spillover line. 
2. Mouse over the long link, then mouse off. 
3. Mouse over it again, if you feel the urge. 
4. Select the now-bold text, or switch to and away from another tab.
Actual Results:  
The text between the end of the link text and the next linebreak becomes bolder and bolder with every mouseover, until it reaches some upper bound. (It may keep incrementing whatever it's incrementing, but it's no longer distinguishable to the naked eye at that point.) Once the text is selected (or redrawn by switching tabs or something), it snaps back to its appropriate weight. 

Expected Results:  
No change to weight of non-link text.