144028 - mouse scroll wheel

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33732

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[andy]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

i think that the mouse scroll wheel should not depend on where the mouse pointer
is at. this causes the scroll wheel to be extremely hard to use on dropdown
objects. it also is a hassle when you are clicking the back or forward buttons,
and then you have to move the mouse a little back and forth in order to scroll
the page. i think that the mouse scroll wheel should operate exactly as it does
in netscape navigator 4.79. the mouse wheel should scroll the focuses scrollable
thing.

also, besides the fact that i do not like this, the scroll wheel operates
differently. in this text box i am typing in, the scroll wheel only scrolls the
text box, no matter where the pointer is located on the page. however, for
dropdowns, and the entire page, it depends on where the mouse pointer is located.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open any page longer than the screen 
2.move the mouse pointer around, and notice the inconsistency of how the scroll
wheel works while you are moving the pointer around.
3.

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

this report actually raises multiple issues, but they all seem to have been
filed. duping to the one that is the substance of this report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33732 ***