666270 - Cannot use double-click to select text beyond window

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Suteepat]

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

Cannot use double-click to select text beyond window.
The window doesn't scroll down to the rest of a webpage.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double-click to select text and drag down outside the window.

Actual Results:  
The window does not scroll down and therefore you can't select the text below the window.

Expected Results:  
The window should scroll down to be able to select text outside the window.

I think this occurs on 4 and 5 as well but I couldn't test on firefox 3.

Comment 1

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

I can confirm this on:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110622 Firefox/7.0a1

This issue is reproducible ever since Firefox 3.6. Setting the resolution to NEW.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

May be duplication of Bug 41708

Comment 3

[Suteepat]

(In reply to comment #2)
> May be duplication of Bug 41708

I don't think so. Bug 41708 is about select text, release mouse click, and drag it outside the viewport. For example, if you want to drag a text from the top of this page to the comment box.

Mine is about, for example, you want to select the whole text from the top of this page to the bottom. It works fine if you just select text with just a simple click and then scroll down. But it doesn't work if you select text with double-click and then scroll down.

In addition, I found it works properly when double-click to select text and then scroll up.

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> Mine is about, for example, you want to select the whole text from the top
> of this page to the bottom. It works fine if you just select text with just
> a simple click and then scroll down. But it doesn't work if you select text
> with double-click and then scroll down.
> 
> In addition, I found it works properly when double-click to select text and
> then scroll up.

If you mean the following STR,
1. mousedown - mouseup - mousedown quickly (now select a word)
2. keep holding mousedown and move mouse pointer downward to outside browser window

The browser window scroll automatically and I can select text whole text from the word to the bottom.
I tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110623 Firefox/7.0a1 ID:20110623030811

Comment 5

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110604 Firefox/7.0a1

This sound like a graphic issue then. On Windows 7 X 86 this issue is reproducible. The auto scrolling can be done in the upper side from the word that was selected but not in the down side of it.
The selection of the word is made by double clicking, and then, without releasing the mouse, pointing it in the down side of the page.

Comment 6

[Suteepat]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > 
> > Mine is about, for example, you want to select the whole text from the top
> > of this page to the bottom. It works fine if you just select text with just
> > a simple click and then scroll down. But it doesn't work if you select text
> > with double-click and then scroll down.
> > 
> > In addition, I found it works properly when double-click to select text and
> > then scroll up.
> 
> If you mean the following STR,
> 1. mousedown - mouseup - mousedown quickly (now select a word)
> 2. keep holding mousedown and move mouse pointer downward to outside browser
> window
> 
> The browser window scroll automatically and I can select text whole text
> from the word to the bottom.
> I tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110623
> Firefox/7.0a1 ID:20110623030811

Yes, that's right. But I don't know why you can't reproduce it.