Closed Bug 156942 Opened 22 years ago Closed 19 years ago

bookmarks menu scrolling uncontrollably

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129480

People

(Reporter: tom, Assigned: ben_seamonkey)

Details

I have an extensive list of bookmarks in my menu (in the OS X menu bar). When I
attempt to scroll down the list, the menu takes control and will not stop
scrolling down until it reaches the end of my bookmarks. This also occurs when
scrolling the subfolders. This has been present in the last couple of nightlies.
-> Bookmarks

which Build Do you use ?
Assignee: Matti → ben
Component: Browser-General → Bookmarks
QA Contact: asa → claudius
This is 2002071108 off the trunk. 
Bug Confirmed Mozilla 20020711-08 Mac OS X 10.5
When the Bookmarks menu has too many to display on the screen, up and down
arrows appear. When the down arrow is hovered over, the menu scrolls down to the
bottom. The curser becomes the OS X 'waiting rainbow-wheel'. Clicking anything
(including the up arrow) has no affect.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
In Win32 (Windows 98SE) Mozill v1.1b this uncontrollable scrolling of the
bookmarks 1st showed, to my knowledge, in the build of 8/2/02.  Email me if you
need to know the exact build # & I'll reinstall it.  I get a new nightly build
about once a week or so.  In the build I got today, 8/12/02 #2002081209, I
haven't yet seen the uncontollable scrolling but a new similar problem - it
won't scroll hardly at all.  You bring the mouse pointer to the bottom of the
list & it scrolls 1 or 2 lines & stops.  Jiggling the cursor up & down a little
gets another line or 2 & stops.  etc.  You do need more than one screens worth
of bookmarks to have this problem.  

BTW, the 8/10/02 build wouldn't install with a problem I find in about 1 of 4
Win32-sea.exe builds.  It says corrupt *.xci (I think that is the name).  
Same endless scrolling choosing Bookmarks from the Mozilla toolbar using Mac OS
9.2.1. Tried it using Classic and Pinball themes, no difference. Currently using
Cmd-B as workaround. Doing search from there (Cmd-F) is much easier anyway, as I
have a large 494KB bookmarks file, and menuscrolling is mighty slow when it's
that long.

[Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826]
Ditto for Mac OS 9.2.1. Mozilla 1.2a does not fix this problem of accessing a
specific bookmark from the Personal Toolbar drop-down menu list.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Not sure if this is a dupe of bug 125375, but I commented there to get a status
and to see if Ben was aware of this issue. It's a very longstanding issue on
Linux, so changing OS/Plat.

This is probably /the/ most annoying bug in Moz for me. See it on a daily basis,
as I use the kb exclusively to access the bookmark menu.

Also, when in this mode, even the mouse seems to have issues scrolling. It'll
only scroll down two, then you have to move off the scroll arrow and back on for
another two. It's a very long procesess.
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
I have observed this same problem with scrolling on the following release builds
of Mozilla on Windows: 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, and 1.4. The behavior described is
intermittent and not completely predictable or reproducable, so it is difficult
to create a good test case. 

I maintain a large bookmarks  file. So when I want to select a bookamrk from
this file, I use the "Manage Bookmarks" option. My typical behavior is select
"Manage Bookmarks" and then hit the "End" key to get to the end of the file and
then rearrange some of the bookmarks. I will normallly select a bookmark with
the mouse and then drag the bookmark up or down in the list and drop the
bookmark to a new location, usually fairly close by. When I am dragging a
bookmark up and go past the top bookmark showing in the window, intermittently
the view of bookmarks in the "Manage Bookmarks" window will continously scroll
smoothly upward for several minutes until the top of the bookmark list is
reached. Once the scrolling starts, there is nothing that I can do to stop this
behavior. There is obviously some place in the code that handles the "Manage
Bookmarks" window where an endless loop is hit. Once the list of bookmarks
starts to scroll upward, there is nothing that can be done but let it finish or
close (and usually) crash Mozilla. I have only noticed this bug when dragging a
bookmark upward. I have never observed this behavior when dragging downward, but
this might reflect my typical usage patterns (move recently saved bookmarks
upward to a new position in the list). My workaround has been to "cut" the
bookmark from its current location and use the "Page Up" key repeatedly to
position upward to where I want to place the bookmark and "paste" the bookmark
into this new location. I have never observed this behavior using the "Page Up"
key for navigation, so I general associate it with the mouse. Although it might
be possible that scrolling upward with the "up arrow" key may also hit this bug.
When dragging a bookmark upward, this bug appears to occur sometimes before the
mouse appears to hit the top of the "Manage Bookmarks" window which would cause
upward scrolling, but this may just be that with smooth scrolling the screen
display is still refreshing and does not accurately reflect where the mouse is.

Again, this bug is intermittent and will not happen every time which makes
locating and fixing it a problem. I would do a careful code review of any loop
structures that handle scrolling in the "Manage Bookmarks" window, particularly
those that might deal with dragging bookmarks upward. 

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to ben_seamonkey@hotmail.com
Assignee: bugs → ben_seamonkey
Using Firefox 1.0PR: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The scrolling through bookmark menu is horrible experience. I guess MS had the
reasons when they did not implement mousewheel scrolling or simply
mouse-cursor-position-based scrolling through bookmark menu, and allowed to use
only scroll buttons.

When I scroll to the very end and select an item, and then open bookmarks again,
it starts scrolling while I drag mouse. If I use mouse scroll wheel in another
direction, the current item starts jerking in the menu. Looks awful, and it is
hard to stop that.

This bug must be fixed, or those "simple users" who currently use MSIE, would
not accept Firefox.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Is this a duplicate of bug#129480?

(In reply to comment #11)
> Is this a duplicate of bug#129480?
Seems like it is. Very annoying. 

There are several more annoying bugs related to bookmarks, like it is possible
to create a folder, but impossible to delete it (possible to delete from "Manage
Bookmarks" only); the same page can be bookmarked several times; this scrolling
thing. Oh, and the main menu as a whole is slow as dead horse. Why is that? Does
Firefox read main menu dynamically each time I select an item?

Dupe of bug 129480.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129480 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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