617322 - Enlarge the selection area of text in the web console

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 605621

(DevTools :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac)]

Build ID: 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101206 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Steps: 

1. Navigate to any page
2. Bring up the console, but disable network events so that we would not have lots of text in the content area 
3. Throw some log, info, errors like console.info("text"), console.log("text"), console.error("error message") 
4. Notice you created some log information in the console content area. Try to select the echoed text via mouse left click. 
5. Begin your selection area with the mouse from a random position on the screen. 

Behavior: 

You will not be able to start a selection area if moving too far away of the text you want to select.

Comment 1

[Kevin Dangoor]

Mihai: please try to reproduce and then see if Patrick's work on bug 605621 has any bearing here. I'm guessing it could change the behavior, since the output area is going to be quite different.

Comment 2

[Kevin Dangoor]

selection works quite differently after bug 605621. That bug changes each log entry to be a distinct, selectable item.