Cursor tracking in thunderbird/firefox?

[Ben Steeves]

On 3/3/06, D Canfield <canfield at uindy.edu> wrote:
> I don't want to be the kind of guy that harps on his "favorite" bugs,
> but I'm finding it incredibly difficult to believe that the cursor
> tracking that is broken in both the thunderbird editor and the firefox
> textarea has not been fixed this close to release.  Is it really not
> driving anyone else totally insane, or is it just a handful of us who
> are experiencing it?  There is an open bug in bugzilla about the
> thunderbird issue, and I would expect the two are related.  I don't know
> if the editor is mozilla specific or a gtk thing, but I've not noticed
> the issue in any other gtk apps, and the issue doesn't exist on
> Windows.  Yet, it still occurs with a fresh download from mozilla.com.
> Anyone know what's going on with this?

It might be more helpful if you were to point to the bugzilla entry or
describe the behavior more completely, 'cos I for one am not sure what
"cursor tracking" means.

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