223992 - mouse wheel doesn't scroll - keyboard not affected

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Joshua Nixon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

new design for "a list apart" doesn't scroll if i use mouse wheel - keyboard
controls work fine, there are no overflow: scroll or :auto in page CSS  (and as
such i don't think this is a dupe of bug 97283)... page is valid XHTML and CSS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://www.alistapart.com
2. try to scroll using mouse wheel.
Actual Results:  
no scrolling occurs UNLESS mouse pointer is directly over scrollbar on side of
page. keyboard works fine. clicking somewhere in or out of page to attempt to
change focus doesn't help.

Expected Results:  
page should scroll normally.

Comment 1

[oliv]

please could someone mark this as confirmed? I confirm it on my browser
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040115
Firebird/0.8.0+)

Many other pages are affected:
http://linuxfr.org/my/  (scrolling works only in the 5-10 dark gray pixel frames)
http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/ (only the white part at the left work)

It seems several bugs are mentionning problems with wheel scrolling. This one is
probably a duplicate, however it should be classified as duplicate, not as
unconfirmed.
(I precise I cannot change the bug to confirmed)

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Well, all the pages mentioned work great for me (1.7b, WinXP).
All the other pages work for you?
Bug 20618 is the most generic one on mousewheel scrolling issue (and the most
duplicated open bug!).

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 4

[dales]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".
> 
> This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
> bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
> highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.
> 

I have run into a scroll-wheel problem on Windows 2000, though not a severe as
the report here.  In my case the scrolling action from the wheel is quite
irregular ... sometimes no action at all; sometimes jerky response.  I am seeing
this on this message forum when reading messages as well as scrolling within the
message compose box and the whole message frame.

The timing seems to correlate with my discovery in the last week of the
autoscroll function addition to Seamonkey.  I am using this build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050929
MultiZilla/1.6.2.1a SeaMonkey/1.1a

I have been searching for an existing bug and discovered this one today which
seems closest to the problem.

Dale

Comment 5

[Dominik Stadler]

I think this one should be closed WORKSFORME, there is Bug 300278 which describes a specific problem on Linux, but otherwise this Bug has not had confirmation since 2004/04!

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I think this one should be closed WORKSFORME, there is Bug 300278 which
> describes a specific problem on Linux, but otherwise this Bug has not had
> confirmation since 2004/04!

300278 does not describe any of the initial symptoms (comment 0 annd comment 1) reported in this bug. likewise comment 4.  WFM FF 1.5 and SM 1.5ba against the 2 URLS that still work so closing WFM. (I'm not educated enough to say it's a dup of 20618)

comment 4 might be reportable against mozilla suite, but since it's multizilla shouldn't it really be reported against multizilla? (dales if you do report something please cite URLs)