255962 - When a link has focus, the page doesn't scroll

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040812 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040812 Firefox/0.9.1+

Middlecklicking on a link (opening in a new tab) disables the original page
scrolling. To enable it back again, one must click somewhere out of a link.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a page with links
2.Middleclick on a link
3.Try to scroll the page again

Actual Results:  
Page scrolling stops working after a link on it gets focus

Expected Results:  
Page shoucl scroll all the time, regardless of focus.

Haven't check with Mozilla browser, but I suppose the bug is common.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Reporter please try a current build and without any extensions.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

I can confirm this with latest branch build (20040817, Windows XP) in safe mode.
Middle clicking on the page opens the link in a new tab, and then the mousewheel
scrolling stops working on the current page.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Upps I had the wrong build but just WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040816 Firefox/0.9.1+

So it seems to be WinXP specific.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Can you scroll with the arrow keys? Can you determine where focus is?

Comment 5

[Tom]

Yes, the arrow keys work fine. The focus is, obivously, on the link and is even
visible (dotted frame around the link).

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think this is specific to the headline links on http://www.ihned.cz/ rather
than specific to WinXP.  A reduced testcase would help.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Yes, same for me on this win2k machine and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

tested with 2004081808-0.9+ bits on linux fedora core 2, but I cannot reproduce
this.

1. in this page (bug report), I middle-click the "View Bug Activity" link. as
expected, the "View Bug Activity" page loads as a new tab in the background, and
the link on this page gets the focus ring.

2. try scrolling in this page with keyboard (eg, arrow keys) or mousewheel.

results: as expected, I can scroll the page with either keyboard or mousewheel.

I also tested with various links on http://www.ihned.cz/, and it still worked
for me. could this be specific to Windows, then?

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I also tested with various links on http://www.ihned.cz/, and it still worked
> for me. could this be specific to Windows, then?

Please try following:

1. Open http://www.ihned.cz/
2. Middle click on the first headline "Vnitro narychlo hledá dokumenty o Přibylovi"
3. Try to scroll with the mouse -> no reaction

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Please try following:
> 1. Open http://www.ihned.cz/

when I loaded this page, the throbbed never seemed to stop, so I hit the Stop
button in the Navigation toolbar. don't think that would affect this test.

> 2. Middle click on the first headline "Vnitro narychlo hledá dokumenty o
Přibylovi"
> 3. Try to scroll with the mouse -> no reaction

ah! now I experience the problem: no longer able to scroll with the mousewheel.

but it's rather strange that I can still scroll using the keyboard.

Comment 11

[Aaron Leventhal]

Mousewheel, not a keyboard issue.

Comment 12

[david young]

I've noticed similar behavior -- running Firefox on Mac OS X....

On a two-frame page, when I click on link (in Frame 1) which updates the other
frame, the focus is lost. I can't click on Frame 1's background to get focus,
but instead I have to click on frame 2's background, and then click on frame 1's
background.

So... for example, if I click on a frame 1 link, I'd like focus to remain on
frame 1, so that if I hit the space bar, frame 1 will scroll down.

The site I was visiting when I noticed this was http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs
 
my Firefox version info:
Version 1 - Preview Release
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001
Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 13

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 304569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Martin F.]

This bug also appears at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-ten-css-tricks
(and other, probably every other Sitepoint article).

I can reproduce it with the following builds (with new profiles):
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919
Firefox/1.0.7
and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050927
Firefox/1.0.7

WFM with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050927
Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 15

[[e-mail]]

Error confirmed
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

I think the qawanted keyword should be removed and the bug be resolved FIXED.

Comment 16

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5