903810 - Text selection in XML files doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Text Selection, defect)

Description

[Oleg Kuznetsov]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130624103921

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open any XML, for example: http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd
2) Perform a long tap on any part of the document


Actual results:

1) Markers for text selection in document don't appear neither in the XML body, nor in the "This XML file does not appear <...>" message


Expected results:

1) Markers for text selection should appear and allow me to bring the context menu for text copying

Comment 1

[Oleg Kuznetsov]

Additional information: I tried it on Firefox 23 and Firefox 24 Beta from Google Play; 
My device is Asus Nexus 7 3G (first generation); Installed OS: Android 4.3 (Baseband version: 1231_0.18.0_0409; Kernel version: 3.1.10-g1e8b3d8 [e-mail] #1 Tue Jun 11 23:51:41 PDT 2013; Build Number: JWR66V)

Comment 2

[Teodora Vermesan (:TeoVermesan)]

I can reproduce this on Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1.1) on the latest Nightly 08/13
I've installed on older build and both text selection and context menu appeared.

Comment 3

[Dave Royal]

Confirmed Fx 32 on Nexus 7 2012 Android 4.4.4

It means I am unable to copy a (coloured blue but non-clickable) URL from an RSS file.
(It doesn't display RSS files like the desktop version of Fx - bug or by-design?)
Example - the mp3 files here:
http://www.afolksongaday.com/?feed=rss2

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Workarounds and alternative behaviors:

* Subscribe to the feed using the Home Feeds add-on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/home-feeds

* Use view-source to get a highlighted plain-text version of the feed.

view-source:http://www.afolksongaday.com/?feed=rss2

allows me to select text.

Comment 5

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Pruning some old bugs obviated by new Core/Layout AccessibleCaret implementation, or being no longer observable.

(Please re-open if appropriate.)

Comment 6

[Oleg Kuznetsov]

Still able to reproduce. Firefox for Android 43.0 (20151214163750)

Comment 7

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. The new AccessibleCaret feature is currently available in Nightly/46 and (iirc) targeted for release in 47.

Testing in nightly confirms this will be corrected.

Comment 8

[Oleg Kuznetsov]

Looks like it was fixed in Firefox for Android 48.0b1 (20160607191837). Not sure why Bugzilla doesn't let me change the flag to Resolved/Fixed (I don't see this combination), so I'm going leave as it is