667571 - Selecting the right word can be hard.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv7.0a1) Gecko/20110627 Firefox/7.0a1 Fennec/7.0a1
Device: HTC Flyer
OS: Android 2.3


1. go to http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=809487&f=20
2. go to a line that has white space above and below for easier visibility in this bug
3. try to tap on a word

Expected: it's easy to get the correct selected word
Actual: sometimes the highlight might not appear, sometimes it appears on the word above or below.

Note: Selecting the white space above will select the last word in that line before the white space

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOktolnmF28

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

in the video you're pretty clearly pressing on the white space there between the lines. What would you expect fennec to do?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Fennec is doing exactly what we are telling it to do. If you were to double click in desktop firefox in the same places, you would see the same results.