Braille cursor is shown in thunderbird write window and Firefox edit control when selecting all with control+a

[burmancomp]

Steps to reproduce:

This applies also to firefox (tested in comment edit area of this page).

• open empty write window in thunderbird

• ensure braille cursor is not shown with dots 7 and 8, or if it is then use blinkin braille cursor

• write "test." and press enter

• goto start of document with control+home and

• press control+a to select all.

  Actual behavior:

  Empty line with braille cursor is shown.

  Expected behavior:

  Because all text is selected there should be no braille cursor. If you now:

• press shift+left arrow, braille shows "Test." as selected text, and there is no braille cursor.

• then press shift+right arrow, also carriage return (or line feed is shown as selected), and there is no braille cursor

• finally press shift+right arrow, nothing happens which is logical because there is nothing more to select.

But if you try "steps to reproduce" so that you are end of text, behavior seems to be correct, there is no braille cursor, and all is selected.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

installed

NVDA version:

2024.4.0.33268

Windows version:

windows 11 23h2

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

thunderbird 128.0.1, firefox 128.0.3

Other information about your system:

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

yes

[burmancomp]

Same behavior appears in Firefox - I tried in this comment edit control.