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!
Yeah I have this issue sometimes too.
I don’t use LinkedIn often but I notice the same behaviour when using Instagram.
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
Maybe file a bug report so that developers can help solve the issue, if you have time.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
Thanks, maybe I will. It could be a problem on the side of LinkedIn too of course.