B2G recently landed platform support for some selection carets. Our text selection code is... not the most elegant thing. If/When the platform code is good enough (i.e. both performance and interaction), we should use it. I'll mark some bugs blocking here that I saw when I turned it on so we can track if its ready. Its fairly easy to do 1.) Set touchCaret.enabled and selectioncaret.enabled to true. 2.) Add the images to our package-manifest: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/b2g/installer/package-manifest.in#692 have fun.

I will be so happy when we can rip out all our Fennec text selection code! This was already filed as bug 988143. wesj, do you want to dupe and move your dependencies over?

(In reply to Wesley Johnston (:wesj) from comment #0) > B2G recently landed platform support for some selection carets. Our text > selection code is... not the most elegant thing. If/When the platform code > is good enough (i.e. both performance and interaction), we should use it. FWIW, I am *very* interested in us fixing all of the performance and interaction issues you guys face so that we can turn this on for Fennec. That work is also going to benefit b2g, and I like to kill multiple birds with a single stone. :-)

I'm going to mark this as a dup of bug 988143 (vs the other way around). There's a bigger cc: list on that one.