Text looses selection while drag-select in GMail chat windows 1. Open a gmail chat window to someone 2. send enough messages that the log starts to scroll 3. Start selecting text in the transcript and drag upwards so that the scroll area should autoscroll to continue selecting text. 4. WebKit loses selection, as the area starts to scroll. Firefox does not. I've not tried spoofing as Firefox to see if this is related to the javascript they send down to WebKit.
The text seems to lose its selection due to the scroll event causing the chat text entry area gaining focus. Maybe Gmail is sending a focus event during the drag which firefox is igoring (and we're not)?
I think Google Mail (Gmail) has evolved a lot since 2008 and similarly Web Technologies and we have WPT to reach interop behavior and if there would have been still any issue, there would have been any future bug report. There is no point in keeping this old bug without any testcase from 2008 and one which would be difficult to replicate. So I am going to mark this as "RESOLVED WONTFIX". Please reopen if it is still happening and have reproduce testcase.