671052 - Text selection highlight sometimes replaced with blinking cursor when using handles

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 667243

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: Blinking cursor

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110712 Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1
Device: HTC Nexus One
Android: 2.3.4

Once in a while, when I want to text select instead of seeing a highlight in my text selection I will get a blinking cursor that can be moved with the handles. For some reason I can't reproduce this on all pages with text, but I can reproduce this all the time on the article in the URL below [1]

See screenshot with the cursor on the word determining which I wanted to select.

[1] http://hackaday.com/2011/07/12/character-lcd-screen-add-on-for-android-devices/

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Forgot to mention, this is triggered when I move a handle after an initial selection.

Comment 2

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

This is because we currently use the "caret mode" and fake mouse clicks to do the text highlight. Creating a real API will allow us to stop using the hack.