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(In reply to Piotr [:pdsz] from comment #2)
> I managed to track down the **XMBC** option that causes the scroll problem to occur: “Make scroll wheel scroll window under cursor”. The workaround is to clear this general setting or enable a per-app setting “Disable Scroll Window Under Cursor” for `firefox.exe`.
> Related: [bug #1798014](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014#c49).
> 
> It seems to be a bug or at least an incompatibility affecting both **Firefox** and **XMBC**, and an optimal solution is to implement a fix in both applications. Patching only one of them should also solve the problem for the end users. This is probably happening at the moment, as there is [a recent discussion](https://forums.highrez.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4632) about the bug also on **XMBC**’s forum.
> 
> For example, [**XMBC** 2.20 Beta 7](https://forums.highrez.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=23366#p23366) seems to work without triggering the issue. It can be installed from within the app by enabling beta updates in settings and manually triggering a search for updates.
> 
> As there is [a fix implemented in the Nightly version of Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014#c75) as well, the bug can be probably closed as fixed or a duplicate of [#1798014](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014).

Sorry, I would just like to note that my patch doesn't actually *fix* this issue on Firefox; All it does is note that the problem exists in `about:support` so that our engineers can easily track it down. As installing global mouse hooks is probably out-of-the-realm of things that Firefox should be doing, the only reasonable fix for this is for software like XMBC to handle disabled windows properly (which it now does in its newest Beta).

(In reply to Piotr [:pdsz] from comment #2)
> I managed to track down the **XMBC** option that causes the scroll problem to occur: “Make scroll wheel scroll window under cursor”. The workaround is to clear this general setting or enable a per-app setting “Disable Scroll Window Under Cursor” for `firefox.exe`.
> Related: [bug #1798014](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014#c49).
> 
> It seems to be a bug or at least an incompatibility affecting both **Firefox** and **XMBC**, and an optimal solution is to implement a fix in both applications. Patching only one of them should also solve the problem for the end users. This is probably happening at the moment, as there is [a recent discussion](https://forums.highrez.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4632) about the bug also on **XMBC**’s forum.
> 
> For example, [**XMBC** 2.20 Beta 7](https://forums.highrez.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=23366#p23366) seems to work without triggering the issue. It can be installed from within the app by enabling beta updates in settings and manually triggering a search for updates.
> 
> As there is [a fix implemented in the Nightly version of Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014#c75) as well, the bug can be probably closed as fixed or a duplicate of [#1798014](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798014).

Sorry, I would just like to note that my patch doesn't actually *fix* this issue on Firefox; All it does is note that the issue was detected in `about:support` so that our engineers can easily track it down. As installing global mouse hooks is probably out-of-the-realm of things that Firefox should be doing, the only reasonable fix for this is for software like XMBC to handle disabled windows properly (which it now does in its newest Beta).