Selection should not set the cursor type to text over the explicitly set cursor type.

Source/core/page/EventHandler.cpp

 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Alexey Proskuryakov (ap@webkit.org)
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Digia Plc. and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  * are met:
  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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     if (panScrollInProgress())
         return NoCursorChange;
 #endif
 
     Node* node = event.targetNode();
     RenderObject* renderer = node ? node->renderer() : 0;
     RenderStyle* style = renderer ? renderer->style() : 0;
     bool horizontalText = !style || style->isHorizontalWritingMode();
     const Cursor& iBeam = horizontalText ? iBeamCursor() : verticalTextCursor();
 
-    // During selection, use an I-beam no matter what we're over.
-    // If a drag may be starting or we're capturing mouse events for a particular node, don't treat this as a selection.
-    if (m_mousePressed && m_mouseDownMayStartSelect
-        && !m_mouseDownMayStartDrag
-        && m_frame->selection().isCaretOrRange() && !m_capturingMouseEventsNode)
-        return iBeam;
-
     if (renderer) {
         Cursor overrideCursor;
         switch (renderer->getCursor(roundedIntPoint(event.localPoint()), overrideCursor)) {
         case SetCursorBasedOnStyle:
             break;
         case SetCursor:
             return overrideCursor;
         case DoNotSetCursor:
             return NoCursorChange;
         }
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         if (useHandCursor(node, event.isOverLink(), event.event().shiftKey()))
             return handCursor();
 
         bool inResizer = false;
         if (renderer) {
             if (RenderLayer* layer = renderer->enclosingLayer()) {
                 if (FrameView* view = m_frame->view())
                     inResizer = layer->isPointInResizeControl(view->windowToContents(event.event().position()), ResizerForPointer);
             }
         }
+
+        // During selection, use an I-beam no matter what we're over.
+        // If a drag may be starting or we're capturing mouse events for a particular node, don't treat this as a selection.
+        if (m_mousePressed && m_mouseDownMayStartSelect
+            && !m_mouseDownMayStartDrag
+            && m_frame->selection().isCaretOrRange()
+            && !m_capturingMouseEventsNode) {
+            return iBeam;
+        }
+
         if ((editable || (renderer && renderer->isText() && node->canStartSelection())) && !inResizer && !scrollbar)
             return iBeam;
         return pointerCursor();
     }
     case CURSOR_CROSS:
         return crossCursor();
     case CURSOR_POINTER:
         return handCursor();
     case CURSOR_MOVE:
         return moveCursor();
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 unsigned EventHandler::accessKeyModifiers()
 {
 #if OS(MACOSX)
     return PlatformEvent::CtrlKey | PlatformEvent::AltKey;
 #else
     return PlatformEvent::AltKey;
 #endif
 }
 
 } // namespace WebCore