252351 - scrolling freezes, no context menu, & no searching on tab

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Gavin C. Flower]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I had scrolled mostly down the page, I "may" have gone to another tab and
returned (something I do quite often, without problems), then I found some
problems.  All these problems relate to the one tab.  No apparent problems with
other tabs in the same browser instance.

Problems:
(1) can't scroll up or down (neither by mouse wheel, nor by dragging scrollbar,
nor by clicking in the gully before or after the slider)

(2) Right clicking mouse does not bring up a menue.

(3) Typing letters does not initiate incremental search

All these actions I can successfully do in another tab (this one, that I'm
typing up the bug) of the same browser instance.

I have no problems deleting tabs and bringing up new tabs & content.  The
original frozen tab is still unresponsive.

Pocessor utilisation is "normal", i.e. almost non-existent until I do
something... - regardless of being on the errent tab or another.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to URL
2. scroll down
3. ???
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
scrolling and other actions should work as normal

I will delete this browser instance and retry the URL.

Comment 1

[Gavin C. Flower]

Hmm...

The URL was the one displayed in the tab, but it does not relate to the page
that was displayed.  :-(

If I can find the page I will post a another comment.

Comment 2

[Paul Bergsagel]

I believe I have experiernced the same bug on Mac OS X.

I am using the suite nightly (2004080808) on MacOS X 10.3.5

Here is my test case which causes this bug to appear:

1. Open a page with enough content to require scrollbars. 
2. Use the scroll bar to navigate up and down the page.
3. Eventually, usually right away, Mozilla will cease ro respond to mouse
clicks, right clicks no longer brings up the context menu and clicking on links
no longer opens a new page.

This bug occurs regardless of the manner in which the scrollbar is used, i.e.
draging the widget, clicking an arrow, or clicking in the scrollbar.

I believe this bug can be triggered in other ways,but I have not discovered a
test case other than using the scrollbar. This bug is limited to vertical
scrollbars; horizontal scrollbars work fine and do not trigger this bug.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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