Open Bug 1228063 Opened 9 years ago Updated 3 years ago

links are dragged instead of being clicked when clicked quickly and hovering mouse away

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Version:
42 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: p.stephenwille, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Build ID: 20151030083518 Steps to reproduce: 1 - Google search results page. 2 - Quickly mouse over and click any result link and mouse away. 3 - Expect an image of the link to be dragged to wherever your mouse is, and not clicked. 4 - The link should have been navigated to. So frustrating. The slightest mouse movement prevents link navigation. This is new behaviour. Actual results: 3 - Expect the link to be dragged to wherever your mouse is, and not clicked. Expected results: 4 - The link should have been navigated to.
strange, which linux distro are you using ??
Ubuntu 15.10 Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 Codename: wily Linux ubu 4.2.0-18-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:25:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ============= This is true for my home and work computer. Same distro on each, but work is running Nvidia graphics and home is integrated Intel graphics.
...oh, not sure it matters, but I am running 3x1920x1200 monitors.
so, you clicked on a link too quickly and moved mouse away, but the link was dragged. right ? beside, are you using multiple monitors ? (three of 1920*1200 resolution) ?
Yes to both. However, the dragging behavior happens all the time, and that's new. My default browser is FF but I use Chrome daily, all day, and this behvior is seen just on FF. *I've been on this setup since Nov 2014.
Moving to something more relative.
QA Whiteboard: [bugday-20151130]
Component: Untriaged → Event Handling
Product: Firefox → Core
Summary: links are dragged... → links are dragged instead of being clicked when clicked quickly and hovering mouse away
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling

Confirmed, same thing happens to me, and is incredibly annoying. It happens with almost every link I click if my mouse happened to be moving. Probably just a matter of increasing the drag activation delay, but this is definitely new behavior for me (within last year or two). Might be when I started using 64bit firefox.

Fedora 31 - x86_64,
2 monitors
Firefox 80.0 (64-bit), from official fedora repo

Severity: normal → S3
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