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Is it normal for Firefox 15.0 to not let grey texts that are suppose to disappear when clicked not disappear?

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Example: in Facebook, the search bar has a grey text "Search for people, places and things". Usually, when I click it, the cursor will blink to the search bar and the grey text disappears. But what happens to me is that when I click it, the cursor will blink to the search bar, but the grey text "Search for people, places and things" is still there... It will only disappear if I type something, but deleting the words I typed will let it reappear. I was just wondering why is this happening... Because I don't know if this is normal. Is this a new feature of Firefox? Because I recently just updated to Firefox 15.0

Example: in Facebook, the search bar has a grey text "Search for people, places and things". Usually, when I click it, the cursor will blink to the search bar and the grey text disappears. But what happens to me is that when I click it, the cursor will blink to the search bar, but the grey text "Search for people, places and things" is still there... It will only disappear if I type something, but deleting the words I typed will let it reappear. I was just wondering why is this happening... Because I don't know if this is normal. Is this a new feature of Firefox? Because I recently just updated to Firefox 15.0

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Yes, Firefox 15 still displays the grayed placeholder text if you click an input field.

  • bug 673873 - display placeholder when focusing an empty input

The placeholder only disappears when you type at least one character.

  • [/questions/935617] Installed Firefox 15 Cursor will go only to beginning of text boxes
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ohh... so that's it! Thanks!