113055 - unable to scroll with mouse wheel unless depressed.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    

In version 0.9.4 scrolling with the mouse wheel worked fine. In 0.9.6 the mouse
scrolling is lost unless you depress the mouse wheel and then roll the wheel.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find a long web page and try to scroll using the center wheel. as mentioned
above .9.4 worked fine but not in 0.9.6
.
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Expected Results:  To be able to scroll as in 0.94 without having to depress the
wheel and then scroll.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

If you first left-click in the page and then try to wheelscroll (without
depressing) - does that work?

Comment 2

[Alon Altman]

I have noticed this problem as well.
"killall imwheel" helps solve this, I don't quite know why.

Is this a dupe/related to bug 20618 ?
This is NOT a dupe of bug 63462 in spite of similar description. This bug refers
to needing to HOLD the button to scroll under Linux.

Can't yet find dupe for this.

Comment 3

[Paul]

Ok, folkes this bug may need to be put on the backburner, but before anything
I'll answer R.K.Aa.

"------- Additional Comment #1 From R.K.Aa 2001-12-01 12:33 -------

If you first left-click in the page and then try to wheelscroll (without
depressing) - does that work?"

R.K.Aa, no bringing focus does not affect it.

***Since I reported the bug I haven't used Mozilla and as such been using
Konqueror but today on using Mozilla to come here, the mouse scrolling works, it
even works in Mozilla mail. I can't think of any cause that would have rectified
it for since the past odd week or so that I have been using 0.9.6 scrolling
hasn't worked. I guess it might have gotten scared that I decided to dump it and
use Konqueror instead.

I'll see how it goes over the next few day's.

Comment 4

[timeless]

Later is harmful

Comment 5

[timeless]

WFM per reporter
reporter: if you can reproduce the problem, just reopen.