175672 - Fast mouse wheel scrolling causes Mozilla to display a page from the "Back" list.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John Barnes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

This happens with many pages from differnet sites. Viewing a page, scrolling up
and down with the wheel works OK if you do it slowly. If you scroll fast back
and forth Mozilla often jumps out of the current page and shows one of the pages
visited earlier.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View an HTML page
2.Click links to view other pages a couple of times
3.Use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down fast.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla jumped out of the page I was scrolling and showed one of the pages in
the "Back" list.

Expected Results:  
Scrolled the current page up and down in response to the mouse wheel rotations.

X86Config appears to be correct for my MicroSoft Intellimouse Pro, connected via
PS/2.

Comment 1

[Cees T.]

Dup of bug 133770?

Comment 2

[John Barnes]

Seems to me to be not related to Bug #133770.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Does your mousewheel have a clickable button? What happens when you
intentionally press down the wheel button, then scroll?

Comment 4

[Scott Forsgren]

This is a very annoying bug. Almost makes the browser unusable.  Anytime I
scroll UP the page with the mouse wheel on a Microsoft mouse, it tries to go to
another page and then you have to click BACK again to get back to where you
were.  Looks like thi shas been reported for awhile with no progress.  Please
advise.  Thanks  

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

do you have some misconfigured mouse gestures installed..?

Comment 6

[Scott Forsgren]

I am not sure what misconfigured mouse gestures means.  I have not installed 
anything that I am aware of.  Can you elaborate?  Thanks

Comment 7

[Alexander Opitz]

Is it possible that you press the mouse wheel while fast scrolling?

Comment 8

[L0ckd0wn]

Scott, you might try to change your prefs.. look under
edit>preferences>advanced>mouse wheel.

Comment 9

[José Jeria]

Is this still an issue? Reporter has Mozilla 1.0.1

Comment 10

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

No response from reporter in 2,5 months.
-> WFM

Comment 11

[Constantine Evans]

I have found that this happens with both Dapper and official Firefox builds in Ubuntu Dapper. The bug is also listed as 32561 in Ubuntu's launchpad. As related there, the problem appears to be with the mouse driver, and not with Firefox - button 6 and 7 presses are generated when scrolling quickly.