Clicking in a text entry box selects text instead of moving the cursor.

[Vern Wall]

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

While posting to a forum I notice a misspelling. I click to correct it, but instead of moving the cursor, all the text is selected from where the cursor was to where I clicked. The next keypress replaces the selected text. This happens most at http://goldismoney.info/ probably because that is where I post the most. It also happens at other forums. I have not seen it happen except at forums.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for your bugreport. Since this seems to be an issue with
version 3 of the firefox browser, I'm reassigning the package.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status new

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Vern Wall (vernwall)]

Yes, this still happens at random intervals, once to several times daily.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for your report. Are you using a mouse or a laptop-touchpad?

[Vern Wall (vernwall)]

I use a mouse exclusively.

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Andreas Moog <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Andreas Moog <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 264203] Re: Clicking in a text entry box selects text instead of moving the cursor.
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 9:33 PM
> Thank you for your report. Are you
> using a mouse or a laptop-touchpad?
>
> --
> Clicking in a text entry box selects text instead of moving
> the cursor.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264203
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct
> subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[vaughn (vaughngrisham)]

This happens at random intervals, with Firefox 3.6 in Lucid Lynx 64-bit on my System 76 Pangolin laptop. I will be filling in a form on a web page or in a search field such as Google and suddenly everything I type will erase all of the cell's contents. At that point, the only way to enter text again is to restart Firefox or compose the text in Gedit (notepad) and copy and paste the contents into Firefox.

I noticed that earlier in bug's log, someone asked whether the original filer of the bug was using a touchpad or a mouse. I'm using a touchpad (though I don't have this problem in any other program but Firefox).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[icedwater (icedwater)]

I would say 'bump', because this is technically what it is. I haven't been able to reproduce the conditions under which this bug is found, but I have seen it on Firefox 3 for Lucid as well. I usually use a touchpad, though it happens sometimes when I am on another Lucid terminal using a mouse. I wonder if it will ever be addressed or if Firefox 4 already solves this problem.