180409 - clicking right mouse button while pressing the left leads to scrolling

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48037

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

Description

[Linus Ericson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Using the steps described below, Mozilla will scroll without any mouse button
being pressed. It seems as if the left mouse press is forgotten when the right
button is clicked.

This scrolling behavior also occurs if a message pops up as I scroll a window
using the scrollbar handle.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press left mouse button on the scrollbar handle
2. Drag the mouse into mozilla
3. Click right mouse button
4. Release left mouse button (outside popup menu)

Actual Results:  
When the mouse is moved, the window will scroll until you click left mouse button.

Expected Results:  
Not scroll

A similar problem occurs in the content area of Mozilla. Press left button on
any text, click right button, release left button. Now you can select the text
without touching any buttons at all.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

confirming. regression on the trunk between 2002042610 and 2002042807 and then
on the 1.0 branch between 2002043008 and 200205113.  blizzard's gtk event
handling patch (bug 129591) appears to be the only relevant checkin matching
both those criteria.

marking NEW

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This worksforme, linux trunk build 2002-11-14-21.  Is this 1.0-branch-only at
this point?

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm seeing the bug with linux trunk build 20021114

Comment 4

[Manuel Padilha]

i'm seeing this bug too, but i've learned to use it...
it's a bit like mouse gestures... after you get used to it becomes really useful...
any chance you might be adding a (proper) mechanism of scrolling without
pressing any buttons?

Comment 5

[jag (Peter Annema)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48037 ***