269692 - When using mouse to highlight text, does not always autoscroll

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Bishop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When selecting text with the mouse, sometimes the screen does not autoscroll to
continue selection.

Happens more frequently if the selection is started in close to the edge of the
area (~100px).

Works fine in all other programs/internet explorer.

I'd set the bug priority as minor, but its damned irritating.

Also related to text selection, triple-clicking a paragraph of text in the
majority of windows apps (and several linux ones) selects the entire paragraph.

Firefox only highlights the individual line that was clicked.

IMO, the whole paragraph behaviour is more favourable/useful.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
N/a
Actual Results:  
N/a

Expected Results:  
Auto scrolled, I suppose...

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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