899579 - Unable to select only a part of the link from html popup on Youtube HTML5 videos

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Reproducible on Firefox 23 beta 10 (BuildID: 20130729175331)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0
Reproducible on latest Aurora (BuildID: 20130730004004)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130730 Firefox/24.0
Reproducible on latest Nightly (BuildID: 20130730030204)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130730 Firefox/25.0

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and click "Join the HTML5 Trial"
3. Open a HTML5 video from youtube (eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjQmTkMjIBg)
4. Right click on the video and select one of the three options there: "Copy video URL", "Copy video URL at current time" or "Copy embed HTML"
5. Focus the link from the html box and try to go to the right to see the rest of the link.
 
Expected results: It is possible to see the entire link by focusing the html box and moving the mouse from left to right.

Actual results: The entire link is highlighted and there is no way to go from left to right to see the entire link.

Notes: 
1. This issue is not a regression because it reproduces back to Firefox 4.0
2. This issue reproduces on Windows and Ubuntu as well.

Comment 1

[u279076]

This looks like a textbox widget provided by YouTube and not Firefox in which case there's nothing we can do. Need-info Gavin to confirm.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Seems likely that they're intentionally cancelling events to avoid textbox scroll behavior, but I don't have time to look into it further.

Comment 3

[u279076]

I just did a comparison with IE and Chrome.

IE does not display the textbox widget at all.
Chrome displays the same behaviour as Firefox.

This is either YouTube's bug or behaving exactly as they designed it. Resolving INVALID.