240510 - page up and page down don't work on certain web pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Scott Otterson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

The page up and page down keys don't work while I'm visiting this page:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

(for example).  Pushing the keys somtimes results in a page up or page down but
mostly, the screen just flashes.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
visit the page and push pageup/pagedown several times.  Somtimes it will work
for a few cycles before failing.

Comment 1

[Christopher Whitt]

This works for me in Firefox 0.8 on Win98.  Can you tell if there might be a
Flash ad embedded in the page that might be causing problems with keyboard
navigation?  Do you have any Firefox extensions installed that could be causing
problems?

Comment 2

[Scott Otterson]

* when there's no flash on the page, the pageup/pagdown keys still don't work.

* I do have three extensions installed: flashblock, adbloc, and "paste and go"

* I still have the problem when I disable them, although it looks like
flashblock is still working even afer I've clicked the disable button

* the pageup/pagedown keys work fine on Windows2000, where I have the same
extensions installed, I think

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

works for me in mozilla 1.7/winxp and firefox 0.8+/linux from 2004-04-20. 

Scott, can you reproduce this with a fresh profile without the extensions
installed? If so please reopen. -> WFM.