121574 - mousewheel does not scroll page, selects text instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113717

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Tormod V]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123
BuildID:    2002012308

When I turn the mousewheel, the page is not scrolled (or only one line).
Instead, some text is selected. At www.mozilla.org for instance, the whole menu
on the left is selected.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.mozilla.org or wherever.
2. Click in the text (that's another known bug).
3. Turn the mousewheel

Actual Results:  Some text is selected.

Expected Results:  The page should scroll.

The 0.9.7 works fine. I haven't tested nightlies in between. I am using a
Kensington mouse with the newest 5.70 driver. I guess this is a dup or a reopen,
but I could not find a bug with these symptoms. It is not necessary to have
"selects" or any forms on the page to see this problem, as some other reported bugs.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

See also bug 116569 which has a different problem on OSX same mouse though.

Comment 2

[jag (Peter Annema)]

-> bryner

Comment 3

[Tormod V]

Sometimes I can scroll one step, then it stops and starts selecting if I go on.
In _some_ cases I can scroll several steps if I do it really slowly. Once I was
loading a very slow page in one tab and I could then scroll in another tab until
the first tab finished loading. Seemed like if Mozilla is busy with something
the scrolling would work.

This is a regression and should be marked so. Am I the only one to have this
problem ? Well, there are maybe not so many multi-button mac-users :)

The problem remains the same in 0.9.8 and in build 2002020512.

Comment 4

[Waldemar Horwat]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113717 ***