193670 - hang if I click into a textbox and drag the mouse cursor over the screen

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[siciliano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

When I click into a textbox and drag the mouse over the screen, the active
window or tab (when more than one tab is open) hangs. It doesn't matter if the
textbox has any content. The whole site scrolls and when you release the mouse
button you can only close the tab or the window.
NOTE: If you have more than one tab in a Phoenix window ONLY THE ACTIVE TAB
hangs, not the whole app.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click into a textbox in a web site
2. hold the mouse button down
3. drag the mouse cursor over the screen to the end of it

Actual Results:  
At first the whole site scrolls then the actual window / tab hangs.

Expected Results:  
Mark existing content of the textbox.

Comment 1

[Erik]

Well, I can confirm this bug beeing present in both Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030209 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0;
en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Phoenix/0.5.

Will check again with latest Mozilla and if still present move this bug over to
Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Erik]

The problem is still present in tha latest version of Mozilla. 

- select a datafield, e.g. "QA Contact:" from the top of this bugzilla page
- hold the mouse button down and drag the mouse to the end of the page
- -> Mozilla starts to scroll
- now you can drag the mouse back to the page and release the button, but
Mozilla will continue to scroll until the scroll bar reaches the end
- now Mozilla get stuck on this page, e.g. you can't use any items on that page
nor you can't use the arrows to scroll up

What you can still use are the toolbar items (Reload, Back, Address bar etc) and
you can still open context menu for the "stuck" page.
if you choose "Reload" from either toolbar or context menu, the page becomes
accessible again.

I remember an already existing bug concerning this "automatic scrolling" - I
suggest leaving the bug "as is" to check for duplicates in Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Erik]

I found several bugs in Mozilla which are related to this scrolling problem,
e.g. bug #43156, but none of this bugs causes Mozilla to hang!
Perhaps someone can check out, if we still can dupe this one of one of the other
bugs mentioned in bug #43156 or if we should keep it as a seperate bug.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 5

[Travis Chase]

I haven't been able to reproduce this.

Comment 6

[siciliano]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I haven't been able to reproduce this.

I tried to reproduce this with Firefox 0.9 on Linux (Fedora Core 2) and here
you're right. I can't reproduce this either. But remember, I found this bug in
Phoenix on Windows.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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