378858 - compose window sometimes does not recognize mouse-up event when selecting text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 368214

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Tobias Bußmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4 (MultiLang)
Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

When you select some of the text you've just written and drags the mouse cursor while mouse button is still pressed out of the compose window to the left and release the button then, the compose window does not recognize the mouse-up event and after moving the cursor back into the compose area the selection changes without having a mouse button pressed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write some lines of thext in the compose window
2. try to select all the text with the mouse: klick to the right below the the text and drag the mouse to the upper left of the compose area. Leave the window to the left while mouse button still pressed (directly out of the compose area, without thouching the subject line first)
3. release the mouse button
4. move the mouse again inside the compose area
Actual Results:  
you see the selection changeing as if you were still selection with pressed mouse button

Expected Results:  
I expect the selection to remain as it was when I released the mouse button.