267102 - Keyboard and mouse buffers are not synchronous.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[TJ Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When working on heavily loaded or old (and slow, like my P-Pro 233) systems 
problems arise with the keyboard and mouse buffers not being sync'd.

For instance, on a webpage, you can click a user editable text box and press 
CTRL-A. Then when the browser processes them from the buffer it will process 
them out of order (highlighting the entire page and then placing the mouse in 
the text box).

Another demonstration would be to open about 20 tabs of webpages then starting 
with the first, click on the fisrt tab then tap CTRL-A, repeat on the second 
tab, etc. until the last tab.  You would expect each tab to have it's page 
selected, but this is not the case.

This is not a problem if the user is willing to wait for the computer to 
process each event before sending another one, but this workaround (user 
patience) defeats the purpose of buffering keyboard and mouse events.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a realy slow computer
2. Bog the computer down
3. Start using mouse and keyboard shortcuts

Actual Results:  
The mouse and keyboard events were processed out of order.

Expected Results:  
The mouse and keyboard events should be sync'd in their buffers.

Throwing a mouse event token into the keyboard buffer when a mouse event is 
buffered and vice versa to allow for synchronous processing could fix this, 
also combining the two buffers into one would also fix this.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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