Open Bug 697146 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Text selection is broken

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

10 Branch
x86
macOS
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: notforyourmail, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111024 Firefox/10.0a1
Build ID: 20111024031040

Steps to reproduce:

1) Position cursor next to some text.  This particularly seems to work at:

http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/10/25/1532213/vint-cerf-answers-your-questions-about-ipv6-and-more

if my cursor is next to the I in "I'm curious what..."

This also works if I'm a bit to the right of the word "efficient" in "...information far more efficient."
2) Click the mouse button and attempt to highlight text to copy by dragging.



Actual results:

A large block of text in the opposite direction of the cursor is highlighted.  This was not the text I was trying to select.  I could not highlight the correct text.


Expected results:

The correct text is highlighted.
Severity: normal → S3
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