123172 - Issues with Kensington Mouse Scrolling (0.9.8, 0.9.9, etc.)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Very few pages I am surfing with build 2002020105 on Mac OS 9.2.2 are allowing
me to use the scroll wheel on my Kensington Mouse-In-A-Box Optical Pro with
Kensington MouseWorks 5.7, and the few that do scroll one line for every five
wheel motions I make.  Very annoying.  (This bug submission page itself will not
scroll for me.)  Scrolling still works fine for me in Netscape 6.2.1 (or as fine
as it ever did -- the "activate the current pane" thing is a pain.)

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20618 ***

Comment 2

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

DO NOT CLOSE THIS BUG AS A DUPLICATE!  Since they don't want bug 63463 to be
reopened, I am reopening this bug that should NOT have been marked as a
duplicate since this is an issue that was earlier resolved but no longer works
as expected.

Mouse:    Kensington Mouse-In-A-Box Optical Pro
Driver:   Kensington MouseWorks 5.7
OS:       Mac OS 9.2.2
Mozilla:  0.9.8, 0.9.9
Issue:    Scrolling has deteriorated since Netscape 6.2.1, with many supposedly
active windows / areas not scrolling at all and those that do scroll doing so
only with much movement of the wheel and only one line at the time.

Steve Dagley asked in bug 63463:  "I'd like to ask a question here since I
haven't seen a new bug yet as pink requested - does the scrolling behavior
differ if the cursor is directly over the scroll bar instead of somewhere in the
window content area?"

It appears to scroll in the same way -- with much movement of the mouse wheel
(like running a toy car along a linoleum floor to wind it up), I can get it to
move maybe one line every second or so.  Certainly not as smooth as with
Netscape 6.2.1.

Comment 3

[timeless]

.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i don't have access to this mouse. saari, marlon has one. can you look into
this? we really need to fix this regression. i'll sit with you on the phone if
you want, or if you want to inter-office mail me marlon's mouse.

Comment 5

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Thank you so much for giving this bug more consideration.  I know it's hard to
do so when there are so many other bugs to take care of and it's hard to target
one particular type of mice.

Upon further inspection, I am actually getting more (but not all) pages to
scroll.  The rate, however, does not seem to match the movement I make with the
wheel.  Whether I move the wheel one "point" (noticable change) or move it as
much as I can with my finger, it only scrolls at about one line per second.  The
issue, then, is that Mozilla is not picking up all of the scroll wheel motions.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 134452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

In bug 137300, I note that under RC1 (Mac OS 9.2.2, MouseWorks 5.7), use of the
scroll wheel causes the cursor to change to the sidebar resize cursor, making
the toolbar buttons and input bar unclickable.

Comment 8

[Joe Corriveau]

I am also using Mac OS 9.2.2 and RC1 with my Kensington Mouse-In-A-Box Optical
Pro and I'm having the same scroll wheel problems.  Two new things I have noticed:

1. When I try to scroll using the scroll wheel, random lines of text will get
selected.

2. If I click on the scroll bar on a list within a web page, than my scroll
wheel works like a charm, but only on the list.

Comment 9

[Jeff Mann]

ditto in mozilla 1.0 final on MacOS 9.2.2 - with latest driver mouseworks 5.7,
scroll wheel may scroll the window 1 "jump" then no more, also selects a line or
two of text which can be repeated but no scrolling happens. It will also
collapse the addressing panel when composing mail.

Select lists within a web page will scroll fine; they are still using system
toolbars. 

Scroll wheel works fine on OS X, with or without mouseworks installed.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 157839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 179868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[sean barr]

Kensington Mouseworks 6.0.1 / Expert Mouse Pro USB and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 refuse to play nice.
Scroll wheel will work intermittently, slowly when it does at all (est. 1 line
per second). I have attempted to change this from 3 lines at a time to 5 and
office 97 style - these options disable scrolling all together. Smart scroll is
non-functional and auto-scroll drives down to the end of the page and will not
scroll back up.

Comment 13

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 14

[Steve Dagley]

Wow, a Mac OS 9 specific bug that hadn't been assassinated yet.  It has been now.