914359 - Vertical scrolling does not work during text selection with mouse since status bar has been removed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Lorenz Froihofer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox in "maximized" or fullscreen mode
2. Open a page with text flowing beyond the bottom of the browser window (vertical scrollbar shown, horizontal scrollbar not shown)
3. Click on the page and hold the mouse button to select text
4. Move mouse down to the bottom of the browser window while still holding the mouse button.


Actual results:

Browser window does not scroll down the page content to be able to select text further down on the page.


Expected results:

Browser should scroll to allow to select text not yet shown on the page.

Workarounds: 
1.) Select text at the bottom and and move the mouse to the top of the browser window.
2.) Show the add-on bar to be able to select and scroll downwards.

Comment 1

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Confirmed
Name 	Firefox
Version 	43.0.4
Build ID 	20160105164030
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2) with mouse start at Welcome to Wikipedia and highlight to bottom of page
Observe: page does not scroll down.
Observe: Ctrl + A accurately highlights all text on page, would expect capability to collect all text with mouse as page scrolls.
Note: In Chrome I am able to select all text on the above mentioned page with the mouse.

Comment 2

[Lorenz Froihofer]

Just tried this with Firefox 56.0.2 and it works now. Could someone please close this bug as "Fixed" - I only have the option to close it as "Invalid" or "Duplicate", which is not appropriate in this case.