Temporary sudden big increase of highlight number on the float - likely a Firefox defect

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Most likely a Firefox defect. So far this defect has been seen only once. For now this issue is to track any occurrences/circumstances.

I was adding standard highlights, on a pretty much static web page: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/. As I'm adding highlights happily and I don't track the number of the highlights shown by the Yawas float. But suddenly I notice a too high number: it jumps from a small value (a little above 10 or 20) to 435 (side note: ignore the white-on-black inversion):

I am not sure if I added one more highlight before I copied the existing stored title (in the following step), as I was in a flow, and I may have noticed the 435 number as I was already clicking Yawas to add the next highlight.

I click the toolbar "Edit this bookmark (Ctrl+D)" button, I copy the title (with the highlights):

policy-templates | Policy Templates for Firefox#__#<<policies.json>> <<Linux>> <<file goes into firefox/distribution>> <<where firefox is the installation directory for firefox>> <<or you can specify system-wide>> <<file in /etc/firefox/policies>> <<domains allowed to access Google Workspace>> <<Block access to the Add-ons Manager (about:addons)#red>> <<Block access to about:config.#red>> <<Block access to About Profiles#red>> <<about:profiles#green>> <<default download directory>> <<Turn off application updates>> <<Disable the built in PDF viewer>> <<Disable Firefox Accounts integration (Sync).>> <<Remove access to Firefox Screenshots.>> <<Disable the “Forget” button.>> <<Disable the Refresh Firefox button#red>> <<Prevent system add-ons#red>> <<Don’t check if Firefox is the default browser at startup.#red>> <<Control the installation, uninstallation and locking of extensions.>> <<a list of bookmarks managed#green>> <<that cannot be changed by the user#red>> <<Allow manual updates only#green>> <<do not notify the user about updates.#red>>

I count the number of << and >>, there are 25 of each, all paired, and seem well-formed.

Now, I must have added two highlights, before I realized I could refresh the page in the next step - I don't remember the exact steps. But, from memory, the number of the highlights stayed incorrect (4xx) and I don't remember if it got increased by 1-2 or not - but either way, the 4xx number didn't get fixed on its own, until I refreshed the page:

I refresh the page, and now the Yawas float shows a correct number: 1/27. And the stored title got two more highlights added:

policy-templates | Policy Templates for Firefox#__#<<policies.json>> <<Linux>> <<file goes into firefox/distribution>> <<where firefox is the installation directory for firefox>> <<or you can specify system-wide>> <<file in /etc/firefox/policies>> <<domains allowed to access Google Workspace>> <<Block access to the Add-ons Manager (about:addons)#red>> <<Block access to about:config.#red>> <<Block access to About Profiles#red>> <<about:profiles#green>> <<default download directory>> <<Turn off application updates>> <<Disable the built in PDF viewer>> <<Disable Firefox Accounts integration (Sync).>> <<Remove access to Firefox Screenshots.>> <<Disable the “Forget” button.>> <<Disable the Refresh Firefox button#red>> <<Prevent system add-ons#red>> <<Don’t check if Firefox is the default browser at startup.#red>> <<Control the installation, uninstallation and locking of extensions.>> <<a list of bookmarks managed#green>> <<that cannot be changed by the user#red>> <<Allow manual updates only#green>> <<do not notify the user about updates.#red>> <<Disable or configure PDF.js>> <<primary (formerly master) password>>

Firefox 122.0 686 (32-bit) binary downloaded from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/122.0/linux-i686/en-US, on current Manjaro x64 X11 GNOME Linux. I'll try 122.0.1 soon.