228749 - dragging text to top/bottom of viewport does not scroll

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41708

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Firebird/0.7+

When dragging a segment of text on the page, it is impossible to scroll in any
manner. I searched in both the Browser and Firebird components, and found nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight a segment of text on this page.
2. Pull the mouse cursor to drag the text.
3. Attempt to move downwards/upwards to scroll, and if a mousewheel is
available, try to scroll with that.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happened.

Expected Results:  
The page should have scrolled appropriately.

There is a thread at Mozillazine discussing this:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=38199

Comment 1

[jim_nicebutdim]

I think the most common solution in other applications is "bump-scrolling" where
edges of the viewport act as hot-spots for the duration of the drag operation.
The user should only need to hover over the hot-spots (while still holding the
item being dragged), to cause the scroll.

Comment 2

[Casey Weston]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216
Firebird/0.7+

WORKSFORME.  It may just be a linux thing.  Can anyone confirm this using
anything but Linux?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216
Firebird/0.7+

Same build as Casey, but I do see this bug.

Comment 4

[John Lee]

Yes, I have seen this bug on a Windows build too, as I dual-boot between Windows
XP and Linux.

Comment 5

[John Lee]

Well? Can anyone confirm this? This is a rather useful feature...

Comment 6

[John Lee]

Sigh...I thought this would be more active, given how helpful a feature this is.

Comment 7

[Stewart Campbell]

I can confirm this on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040503
Firefox/0.8.0+

Mouse move up/down, arrow key up/down, and scrollwheel - None of these scroll.

And I agree, this is annoying!

Comment 8

[Samir L. Boulema]

Confirming

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040408
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41708 ***