632617 - Statuspanel obscures "Find" results, when Find auto-scrolls a link underneath the cursor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 631270

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Load http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=nsSVGSVGElement
 2. Position your mouse-cursor over the "Search For" textbox.
     (There's nothing magic about the text box - it's just at the same x-position as a lot of links, further down the page.)
 3. Ctrl+F to trigger "Find" bar
 4. Type in e.g. "nsSVGLength2"

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 The highlighted found text is obscured by a statuspanel popup.  If you press Ctrl+G to repeat the Find operation, this happens over and over.

ACTUAL RESULTS IN MORE DETAIL:
 - Browser instantly auto-scrolls to have the first occurrence of this string at the bottom of the page.
 - This inadvertantly positions a link beneath the (unmoved) cursor.
 - This causes a statuspanel popup to appear at the bottom, obscuring the find result.

I've hit this bug a number of times since statuspanel appeared. and it's pretty annoying...

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

It seems like one possible fix for this would be to only trigger statuspanel previews when the cursor is *moved* over a link (but not when the scrolling causes a link to slide beneath your unmoved cursor).

I don't know how easy that would be, though, or if that would break other use-cases...