855705 - Selected text remains highlighted

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Reproducible on Firefox 20 RC (BuildID: 20130326150557):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Reproducible on the latest Aurora (BuildID: 20130328042013):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Reproducible on the latest Nightly (BuildID: 20130328031013): 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox.
2. Navigate to http://edition.cnn.com/ (or any other url).
3. Select some text by double/triple clicking.
4. Right click on the selected text.
5. Left click somewhere else on the page.

Expected results: The selected text is no more highlighted.

Actual results: The selected text remains highlighted.

Notes:
1. This issue is not a regression: it reproduces back to Firefox 4.0.
2. This issue is only Mac OSX and Linux related.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

> Actual results: The selected text remains highlighted.

That seems like the desired behavior on OSX/Linux - a left-click when
a context menu is posted closes that menu and nothing else.

Comment 2

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Based on comment 1, setting the status as resolved-invalid.