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VisualEditor: [Regression pre-wmf1] Selection in Firefox can get to 0,0 which then breaks horribly
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Description

seen on beta labs as of 15 April in Firefox not in Chrome

on a page that begins with text such as "two words" open VE and click link without clicking any other item in the page

insert a link such as "http://www.example.com"

in Chrome this correctly creates a link like

[http://www.example.com two] words

but in Firefox we get incorrectly instead

http://www.example.com

two words


Version: unspecified
Severity: major

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Reference
bz63943

Event Timeline

With gerrit 126169 this is now slightly better (initial selection is 1,1 but collapses to 0,0 if you click in), but still needs work because 0,0 is achievable. Badness.

Change 126835 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
Fix initial selection when focusing in Firefox

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/126835

Change 126835 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix initial selection when focusing in Firefox

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/126835