695697 - Text selection highlight disappears after long tap on text

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Andreea Pod]

Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111019 Firefox/10.0a1 Fennec/10.0a1
Device: LG Optimus 2X (Android 2.2)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit a page like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla
2. Hold long tap on text for selecting it

Expected results:
text should be selected and highlighted

Actual result:
text is selected, the handlers appear but the highlight disappears after you get the finger up, please see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMyMSRS4mY&feature=channel_video_title

Comment 1

[Andreea Pod]

This doesn't occurs on: 
Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110801 Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f92e021f1f44

and occurs on:
Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110802 Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a43c3080f472

Possible range:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=f92e021f1f44&tochange=a43c3080f472


I noticed that this is happening on wiki pages only.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I guess that makes it a regression from bug 670222 then.

On what wiki pages are you seeing this only? On wiki.mozilla.org?

Comment 3

[Camelia Urian]

(In reply to Martijn Wargers [:mw22] (QA - IRC nick: mw22) from comment #2)
> I guess that makes it a regression from bug 670222 then.
> 
> On what wiki pages are you seeing this only? On wiki.mozilla.org?

The site is: www.wikipedia.org, but I have seen issue on another site too: www.mediafax.ro

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Ok, thanks, I can see it on this page, for example.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Sorry, I meant this page: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_(literary_theory)

Comment 6

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: testcase

Apparently, it happens with meta user-scalale=0 pages.

Comment 7

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

So perhaps this is a regression from bug 672411 instead?

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component