265830 - scrolling keys won't work until repeated taps on page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ken rosenstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041015 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041015 Firefox/0.10

When the page http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=7 completes loading,
the scrolling keys and pgup/pgdn won't work until you tap on the repeatedly. 
This doesn't happen on all sites, but is repeatable in the mozilla forums and
other sites.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. page completes loading
2. scroll keys, etc. won't work
3. tap on page repeatedly

Actual Results:  
Scroll keys will work

Expected Results:  
The scroll keys should work w/o any other additional action

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041023
Firefox/1.0

Disable your extensions and retest

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Step (the only I can find that does it) to reproduce:

1. Ctrl-Shift-click to open in a new active tab.

New window or changing to a background tab gives focus to the content, but new
active tab doesn't.

Comment 3

[RBL]

I have found that Firefox occasionally stops responding to the cursor and page
keys.  No amount of coercing will bering them back to life.  The scroll bar
continues to work.  Loading a new tab is the only solution.  I see this often on
the BBC's site, and some others.  It does seem to occur on the same sites over
and over.  Have not tested with extensions disabled.  Only extensions I have
loaded are TabBrowserPreferences

[e-mail] 1.2.4, AutoCopy 0.5.2, FlashBlock 1.2.9.  Will test with
those disabled as well and report back.

Comment 4

[ownwomon]

My environ : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Extensions : Sessionsaver .2 and Tab Mix 0.2.1

I'm experiencing similar issues intermittently.  I did previosuly revert to the
vanilla FF 1.0.4 with no extensions installed and I was unable to recreate
the problem. However, I incremently re-installed Tab Mix first and have reported
a single occurrence of the PGDN/PGUP/up/down arrows not scrolling after one tab
in a group of tabs is dragged to a new position. This bug has been reported in
the mozillaZine Tab Miz forum.  There is an additional bug which is unrelated to
the Tab Mix tab drag bug.  I intermittently experience the symptoms reported in
this bug report.  I have yet to determine if it is Tab Mix or Sessionsaver. 
 

Comment 5

[R/]

Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4

I want to confirm this bug. This is one of the first things I noticed when
trying the new Firefox 1.5 Beta 1: arrows / scrolling keys did not seem to work,
and that was right after install without any extensions.

Some minor testing shows that in my case this seems to happen "frequently" when
I first start FF and after a while (opening other pages, new tabs, etc.)
scrolling arrow keys work again. I can't find a good repeatable pattern altough.
Also trying F7 to enable/disable the cursor in a web page doesn't change the
state. When arrow scrolling doesn't work, the cursor doesn't move either.

The first time I noticed it, it wasn't even on a web page: when configuring the
text field in Tools > Options... > General > Connection Settings > No Proxy For,
the content would not scroll to follow the cursor when getting out of the box
(i.e. I add to type blindly.)
If this is of any help, I can confirm that when arrows navigation work in a web
page, it also work in this text field and vice versa.

Comment 6

[David]

Before upgrading to Mozilla 1.5.0.2 my up/down scroll keys would mysterious cease to function after a while.  The "solution" was to close Firefox and launch up a new instance.

With 1.5.0.2 (running on Windows XP, by the way), I now find that this happens with much greater frequency (or maybe it's just after a shorter time spent browsing) than before, sometimes even right when I first start up an instance of Firefox.

I have no extensions.

Comment 7

[Christian Wenz]

probably the same issue as in bug 347951

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This WFM using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X and Windows XP. The only issue I could reproduce were the steps in comment 2 which are now fixed on the trunk.

Resolving this bug as WFM. If you can still reproduce and can provide clear steps on how to do so with a clean profile and using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later (preferably Firefox trunk given that it fixed the other issue), please file a new bug with steps how.