when following a (textual) link that spans multple lines, upon pressing the left mouse button only the first line of the link gets highlighted.

P1 bugs are for crashers. Can you please provide a test case - I had an already open bug on this that I rejected because my test case worked.

for example, near the top of the page www.alpha-processor.com there is a link that spans multiple lines (today it says 'Who Won the 600MHz Alpha Workstation...'. press that link and only the first line of the link will get highlighted.

False alarm. The html source has two link tags in it - (with todays page the content is: <td width="181" valign="top" align="left"><b><font size="2"> <a href="news/pr033199.asp">Who won the 600 MHz Alpha Workstation?</a><br> <a href="news/pr033199.asp">Click here to find out.</a></font></b> </td> Which as you can see is why the bottom line doesn't highlight. With todays build both top lines highlight if you press and hold the mouse over either top line...The other line will also highlight if you press and hold on it.