270029 - In Firefox 1.0 after rightclick on link, click on Open in New Tab, page up and page down lock up with a flashing vertical line on page.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ted Asner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Steps on above URL and others like it or other sources:
Right click on link
Click on Open in New Tab
Return to original URL tab
Click  Page Up  or  Page Down once or a few times
A flashing vertical line appears and page up or down locks up
Happens on NYTimes web pages and others also
It becomes necessary to use vertical scroll bar to move up or down
Did not have this problem with prior builds of Firefox  0.9 etc
Does not occur with Mozilla 1.7.3 or prior versions
Problem occurs also when click is on Open in New Page and regardless of which
option affecting browsing is selected
I only have one computer so do not know what happens on others

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just follow steps outlined above
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Actual Results:  
Same vertical line and lock up of Page up or down

Expected Results:  
Page up and down should have worked normally and no flashing vertical line

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 270031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Randal]

Cannot reproduce here on Windows XP.  Sounds like a display driver issue to me.

Comment 3

[barry pemberton]

I am having the same problem. It is very noticable on fark.com especially in the
forums. The blinking cursor remains locked onto something and pgup/pgdn will not
work or will be limited. It seems like it is having problems with the html on
webpages.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

fark.com WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061128 Minefield/3.0a1