674659 - Unable to unselect text dragging left selection handle, less forgiving than right handle

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110727 Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1
Devices: Samsung Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy SII
OS: Android 2.3.4

Currently when one wants to resize ones selection by dragging the left selection handle, the handle will move but the current selection will not adjust. The rightmost handle is more forgiving as to the position you are dragging.

See example test URL above.

STR:
1. See test URL
2. Highlight 'The quick brown fox'
3. Drag the leftmost selection handle from 'T' to the right over 'brown fox', and  see it not unselect 'The' and 'quick'. Now drag the right selection handle over 'jumped' and 'over' and notice how more forgiving it is (wether you drag a few pixels below the characters), the selection will occur.

ER: Left selection handle should be as forgiving as the right selection handle during ones attempt at text selection/

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is happening with all the shift-mouseclicking that is going on with current text selection.

This should be fixed once bug 667243 gets fixed.

Comment 2

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

Sounds like bug 674791.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Could be, although I have some doubts. I see you posted a patch in bug 674791. So let's wait till that lands and see if it fixes this bug.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This seems fixed via recent work