213726 - Mouse cursor should remain changed when autoscrolling

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[noririty]

Mouse pointer should persist "arrow" or "cross" while autoscrolling.

Comment 1

[Robert Parenton]

This happens because we only change the mouse cursor when it is over the
autoscroll icon.  See where we display the autoscroll cursor and change the
mouse cursor while over the autoscroll icon:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/source/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml#637

and the line that changes the mouse cursor while over the autoscroll icon:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/source/toolkit/content/widgets/browser.xml#673

This would be taken care of (or should be) when the autoscroll icon is moved out
of the DOM

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 260628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[inbox45]

The Mouse scroll Function is tied to Windows however in IE when you press the
wheel on scrool it deactivates the scroll. With Firefox there is an option to
open a new tab when pressing the mouse wheel, which is absolutely great! But if
you happen to do that over a url it automatically opens a tab to that url, as
well as deactivating the scroll. It would be nice if there could be a program
flag telling Firefox to deactivate the scroll if in scroll but not jump to the
url until pressed again.

Comment 4

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050607
Firefox/1.0+

Mouse cursor does not change back if you middleclick to autoscroll and then
click to deactivate autoscroll without moving mouse off icon.  In IE, killing
autoscroll after starting it resets the cursor back to normal.  In firefox, the
cursor remains the 'resize' cursor until the mouse is moved after the autoscroll
icon disappears from under it.

It's really not a bad problem, but annoying once you know it exists.  (Couldn't
figure out if I should make a new bug or use this one)

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 316352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

This is related to bug 309537 and depends on bug 309547 if we want to fix this properly.

Comment 8

[:Gijs (he/him)]

We don't change the cursor for autoscroll at all afaict, so I think this isn't a problem anymore.