264505 - Setting the mouse pointer to snap to the default button in a dialog box doesn't work in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76053

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Janes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1

Some mouse software, for example Microsoft IntelliPoint, has an option to
"automatically move the pointer to the default button in a dialog box".
When this is set and a dialog box appears the mouse pointer will move to the
default button, which I find quite useful.

However it doesn't work in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set your mouse software to automatically move the mouse pointer to a dialogs'
default button.
2. Open a web site which brings up a login dialog.
Actual Results:  
The mouse pointer does not move

Expected Results:  
The mouse pointer should move to the Ok button

I have only tested this with Microsoft IntelliPoint, but i'd imagine it affects
all mouse drivers which provide this functionality.

Comment 1

[David Janes]

This also affects the default windows mouse driver, and IntelliPoint 5, both of
which have the option called "Move pointer to the default button in dialog boxes".

Comment 2

[Bryan]

Confirming on latest trunk build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050614 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061419

I've run into this in multiple situations using FF 1.x and the latest trunk
builds on Windows XP SP2.  I've come to "expect" this functionality in my day to
day use of Windows based software and expected the same of FF.  Hopefully we can
get this "fixed/added" to FF 1.1!

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Bryan]

This is still an issue in the latest builds, both branch and trunk!!!

BUILD: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050926
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092619

~B

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76053 ***