Launch Mozilla and click on the address bar to give it keyboard focus. The editor caret is two pixels thick when in Windows it is conventional for it to be just one pixel. The extra pixel usually means the caret touches the edge of a character before it giving it an unpleasant XOR effect.

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assigning to Simon

You can change this in nsLookAndFeel. I am reliably informed that windows carets are usually two pixels thick, which is what I did. It's also the same thickness as the carets in 4.x composer, and MSDev. Wordpad seems to eb the odd man out, having a narrower one.

verified in 5/17 build.

I agree that many editors seem to use 2 pixel carets but I was commenting on the address bar which is a simple text entry widget. Windows, Linux and Mac predominantly use a single pixel caret for such fields. IE and 4.x on Windows use single pixel carets for everything except the HTML editors (don't ask me why).

Good point. I'll do something about this.

setting polish keyword and reassign to anthonyd

I just wanted to be clear on this bug before I start making changes. This is Windows only, AND the caret needs to be 1 pixel wide for the URL Location bar, and in all other places leave it the same (at 2 pixels wide). Is this correct? Anthony

This is bug is basically fixed in my tree. I made changes to nsLookAndFeel to represent the 2 different caret widths, but the problem that now exists is getting a nsLookAndFeel from nsTextEditorFocusListener, which only has a nsIEditor pointer. THe way it works is you need a preshell to get the prescontext to get the nsLookandFeel, and nsIEdtior doesnt know about the preShell. Dave Hyatt said the best solution would be to seperate nsLookAndFeel from presCOntext, and make it stand alone. Still trying to decide what the best solution is. Anthony

created new bug (to add service provider for nsLookandFeel) that this bug depends on. added beppe to cc list. Anthony

setting to nsbeta3+

adding the brackets in the status

checked in today

tony, you're my new hero!

verified in 8/9 build.