268003 - middle-click makes mouse wheel stop working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

On some (but not all) pages, after I click the middle mouse button to open a
link in a new window, the mouse wheel no longer works in the original window
until I left-click on it again.

For example:

   - go to http://coty.blogs.com/cotys/
   - note that the mouse wheel scrolls the page.
   - middle click on any link (e.g., one of the Permalinks)
     (it also works if you do right click / Open Link in New Window).
   - note that the mouse wheel no longer scrolls the original window,
     even when it has focus.
   - note that the arrow keys *do* scroll.
   - click the left mouse button on any non-link text in the window.
   - now the mouse wheel works again.

This only happens for certain pages (but it always happens for them.)  
Frames do not seem to be involved.

Mozilla 1.7.3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can see the bug using Mozilla1.7. 
The bug seems to happen when one of the links has the focus.

But I can't see the bug, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041104
Firefox/0.9.1+

So I think this has been fixed already, somehow (maybe by the fix for bug 97283). 

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug seen in 1.7 only, Mozilla and Firefox 1.0RC2

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041104

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If this is branch-only, it's probably worksforme or wontfix or whatever Mats
decides, given that he fixed it. ;)

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Bug also occurs in Firefox 1.0 on Linux.
The bug does not occur in a Firefox 1.0 tree with bug 97283 applied...

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