As the title says … ever since Firefox v110, whenever I view a post (content, images or reactions) on LinkedIn and close it again by clicking outside the pop-up, text gets randomly selected. Still occurring in Firefox v120 on Windows 10.

Interestingly, the problem doesn’t occur if I close the pop-up using the “X” button.

Really annoying. I wonder if other Firefox users encounter this problem as well? Please let me know!

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    71 year ago

    Happens on both LinkedIn and Instagram, never actually checked what causes it…

    Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some click event listener firing off a synchronous xhr telemetry request when you close the popup, which freezes the main thread long enough to make the browser think you’ve selected some text

    • 8BitFriendlyOP
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      51 year ago

      Seems like you have the technical background to further investigate this 🙃.

      Good to know it happens on Instagram as well.

  • @Rambomst
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    61 year ago

    I don’t use LinkedIn often but I notice the same behaviour when using Instagram.

    • 8BitFriendlyOP
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      31 year ago

      Thanks, maybe I will. It could be a problem on the side of LinkedIn too of course.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        41 year ago

        It’s definitely a LinkedIn bug, and not a Firefox bug. It’s amazing how little these enormous internet companies care about the quality of their websites.