657956 - Caret (cursor) disappears in multiline textbox (div)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Harald-René Flasch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)

I searched a while and found some (old and new) bug descriptions but none is active or describes the problem in a way it is possible to fix it?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto facebook.com
2. login
3. try to add a comment to a status message (do not create a new status message; add a comment to an existing status message)

Actual Results:  
No cursor/caret

Expected Results:  
There should be a cursor/caret of course (only occurs for Firefox, but works fine with IE, Chrome)

I think it is a major feature having a caret at the correct position. Otherwise it is annoying when typing/editing lot of text.

Workaround: open another tab and go back to the previous one - the cursor may appear

The above Facebook example is just an example. It occurs on a lot of sites (e.g. MSDN Forums)

Comment 1

[Harald-René Flasch]

This issue is well known.
Just google "Cursor disappears in Firefox"

e.g.
http://blog.tremend.ro/2007/01/22/mouse-cursor-disappears-in-firefox/

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Is your Issue reproducible in Safe-Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[Harald-René Flasch]

Yes, same behaviour in safe mode!
Are you able to reproduce this behavour? (e.g. Facebook)

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Duplicate of bug 226301?

Comment 5

[j.j.]

Can you reproduce with Firefox 4.0.1 ? (or Firefox 5 beta ?)
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/channel/

Comment 6

[Harald-René Flasch]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Duplicate of bug 226301?

Wow, this bug was reported 2003-11-20 00:42:52 PST and it is still not fixed ...

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can you reproduce with Firefox 4.0.1 ? (or Firefox 5 beta ?)
> http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/channel/

See above comment.

Comment 7

[Mikko Rantalainen]

This is reproducible with following, too:

1. Login to google plus and open https://plus.google.com/
2. Click text input below header "Stream" (to start inputting a new "Stream post/message/blog/whatever")

Expected result: the caret is visible
Actual result: the caret is invisible (sometimes it blinks once and never appears again)

Workaround: when the focus is in the textarea, open a new tab and close it immediately.

Additional notes: this seems to be some kind of race condition because I'm not seeing it every time. It seems that if I wait for the Google+ to fully load before interacting with the page, it raises the changes for seeing the bug. After using the workaround to enable the caret again I can reproduce the bug by entering https://plus.google.com/ again into the address bar and then trying to focus the stream post field (again, after waiting for the page to fully load).

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.18

Comment 8

[Mikko Rantalainen]

Note that I cannot reproduce with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110804 Firefox/8.0a1 anymore so I think this is fixed between 3.6.18 and 8.0a1.

Comment 9

[Mikko Rantalainen]

I think this might be a duplicate of bug 226301 (or the other way around - this one is much newer but contains better steps to reprocude).

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Mikko Rantalainen from comment #9)
> I think this might be a duplicate of bug 226301 (or the other way around -
> this one is much newer but contains better steps to reprocude).

Do they still work?

I can't reproduce with FB nor G+

Comment 11

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard