271893 - scrolling causes forward backwards history movement and page reloads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251356

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Escott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041106 Galeon/1.3.18
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041106 Galeon/1.3.18

This is a duplicate of the Unconfirmed bug 251356. I do not have privileges to
change the status of that bug to NEW.

Scrolling will cause the page to reload or cause movement either forwards or
backwards in the history. This can be done on any of my mozilla based programs
including: Galeon, Epiphany, Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0rc. This is most likely
to occur with rapid scrolling back and forth. However it also seems to occur
with a quick change of tabs followed by rapid scrolling in one direction. 

I do not (as far as I know) have any kinds of mouse gestures installed or turned
on. It appears to be unrelated to the various bindings like SHIFT+wheel or
CONRTOL+wheel as turning those off or changing them does nothing.

Holding down other buttons like Button 1 or Button 2 (replicated on the side as
well pressing down the wheel) seems to eliminate this behavior, although I am
less able to scroll quickly in these situations. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new browser. 
2. Go to google.com nytimes.com and slashdot.com, and then go back.
3. Scroll rapidly back and forth.
Actual Results:  
Browser switches to either google.com or slashdot.com seemingly based on the
direction of your scroll at the time it decides to switch UP=>history back
DOWN=> history forward.

Expected Results:  
Should just scroll within nytimes.com

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If it is a duplicate, post the comment in the existing bug, don't file a new
one. It is a waste of bug triagers time.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251356 ***