37857 - click-drag-up and click-drag-down selection don't work in address bar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Stanton McCandlish]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Mac_PowerPC)
BuildID:    2000041805 (M15)

Clicking once on unselected text in address bar and dragging up or 
down vertically to select all content before or after, respectively,
the insertion point (I-beam cursor) does not work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Focus on address bar. De-select text (e.g. click once to unselect). 
Select a position for I-beam cursor, such as very end of URL. Click, 
hold, and drag upward. Or select beginning (or middle, whatever; it's 
just another example) and drag downward.

Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  Selection of entire URL in first example, or selection of 
entire URL, 
or whatever portion of URL is after the I-beam cursor, whichever 
applies.

This should (in ALL Mac interfaces in ANY one-line text entry window) 
select all the content before the insertion point if you 
click-hold-drag-up, or all the content after it if you 
click-hold-drag-down.  Dunno how Win and Unix treat this.  This bug 
may also be affecting text editing in form text entry boxes. Haven't 
tested that yet.

PS: This SOUNDS like the right area ("Any strangeness with keyboard 
typing, mouse actions, focus changes" from the component description 
page), but certainly feel free to relocate it, of course.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

I am not seeing the problem in build 2000052208. Do you still see the problem on your 
computer with the latest build?

Comment 2

[Guillaume Filion]

I can't reproduce this problem with Mozilla Build 2000053108. This may have been 
fixed, I remember that older builds had a strange behavior in address bar.

Comment 3

[Stephen Poprocki]

bug has been fixed for a while now

Comment 4

[Stanton McCandlish]

Yes, it does seem to be gone (I reported it initially).  I'm now using Build 2000062914.

Comment 5

[ckritzer (gone)]

Mass update:  changing qacontact to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Not seeing in 2000082313 OS9. Marking verified fixed.