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Hello!

When opening a native <select> dropdown in Firefox, the hover/highlight bar on an <option> does not span the full width of the dropdown popup — it only covers roughly the left portion (about half) of the option row. The rest of the row to the right stays un-highlighted, which looks broken. Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers) render the same markup with a full-width hover highlight.

Steps to reproduce:

Open the attached test page (or any page with a full-width native <select>) in Firefox on Windows. Click the select to open the dropdown. Move the mouse over the options. Expected result: The hover highlight covers the entire width of the option row (full width of the dropdown popup), as it does in Chrome.

Actual result: The hover highlight covers only part of the row width (about half), leaving the right side of the option un-highlighted. See attached screenshots: (attach Firefox screenshot here — and optionally a Chrome screenshot showing correct full-width hover for comparison).

Notes / what I already ruled out:

It is not CSS-specific to my site. I reproduced it with: a styled <select> (custom background/color on <option>, dark color-scheme), a select with the option background removed entirely, the box-shadow: 0 0 10px 100px <color> inset "full-width" workaround, and a completely bare <select> with no custom CSS at all (appearance: auto). All of them show the same half-width hover in Firefox. Chrome renders all of the above with a correct full-width hover. This makes it look like a Firefox-level rendering behavior of the native dropdown popup rather than something controllable from page CSS. Environment:

Firefox version: Latest OS: Windows 11 Display scaling / zoom: (fill in — e.g. 100% page zoom, 100% Windows display scale; mention if non-100%, since DPI scaling can be relevant)

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