599897 - Scroll wheel icon grabs a graphical version text behind it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588403

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[JOe K.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

I have a mouse and when I PRESS the scroll wheel to get the mouse to scroll mode a scroll icon appears (circle with arrows pointing up and down).  If there is text behind this icon the text is grabbed and moved with the scroll icon.  Example:  if there are my icon is over the upper half of a word only the upper half (paritial) letter graphics are grabbed.  Or if I have a capital D and the scroll icon is to the left of the D only slightly touching the left hand side the icon would grab |

The icon would then retain this graphic until I would disengage scroll mode (thereby eliminating the icon

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the scroll wheel button over text
2. Move mouse up and down
3. You'll see that the icon will now be what ever text was behind the scroll wheel.
Actual Results:  
worked as described

Expected Results:  
worked as described

kept the scroll wheel icon

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Will be fixed in Beta 7.

Comment 2

[Robert Moore]

This also happens with images and anything you click over with the scroll wheel.