$timeout resets selected option

[rvelhote-jump]

I am facing a problem where I have a $timeout operation running every second.

The problem is that when I'm just hovering with the mouse in an option or trying to select it with the keyboard the selected option keeps bumping me back to the previously selected option.

This problem was documented here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/Ry6_b6XaobA

There is a fix/workaround that works but I'm not sure of the impact it has on normal operation:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/angular/Ry6_b6XaobA/gHj7Wmb7_8cJ

Plunkr/Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Xn7PA/13/
http://plnkr.co/edit/ZLs9w3wghZd9oKzU22ks?p=preview

Edit: Forgot to specify that this happens in Firefox 27.0.1 but not in Chrome 32

[Narretz]

Is this the same bug as described here? #5994 There's a bugfix almost ready, but it's unmerged.

[rvelhote-jump]

Yes, it's that one. I don't use Github so I couldn't figure out how to search :)

It also links to #2448 which contains the fix mentioned in my initial message.

Hope to see it in a next release. I will apply the patch for now.

[btford]

Closing this as a duplicate; thanks though @rvelhote-jump!