413190 - Navigating with keyboard prevents cursor from changing when hovering over links

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[FirasE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011904 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011904 Minefield/3.0b3pre

If you navigate to a page via the keyboard (backspace key, alt-arrow, etc) and you scroll the new page up or down with the keyboard to position the cursor over a link, the cursor will not change into a hand. Still on the same page, if you move the mouse to position the cursor over a link, it will properly turn into a hand.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page full of links http://www.google.com/search?q=stuff
2. Click one of the links on the page
3. Position the cursor with the mouse so that it will be in the same vertical position as links on the previous page
4. Don't touch the mouse now, and hit backspace or alt-leftarrow
5. Now hit the up/down arrow keys so the cursor hovers over links
Actual Results:  
The cursor does not change into a hand

Expected Results:  
The cursor should change into a hand

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see this also in Firefox 1.x so this is not a (recent) regression.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 269415?

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Does this still happen in Firefox 3.6.6 or later in a fresh profile?

Comment 4

[FirasE]

works fine now