273908 - mousewheel.withnokey.numlines ignored under os/2

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Fitzsimmons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030730 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/contrib/

This works under older versions (Firebird 0.6.1 for example), but not Firefox 1.0:

// Allows for faster mouse scrolling
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.numlines", 6); // Adjust this accordingly -
Default = 1
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines", false); // This must be set to
false in order to read previous line


I'm not sure when it stopped working, since I jumped from 0.6.1 to 1.0.

Interestingly, I can configure (about:config) the "withaltkey" stuff and it
works great: but I don't want to hold down the alt key all day.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.os/2 mouse properties---> scroll speed ---> normal/use simulated keys
2. page up/ctrl options NOT SELECTED.
3. Using warp 4.51 (wseb), tried serveral mice. Works fine with older versions
of moz/firebird.

Actual Results:  
Scrolls one line at a time no matter what about:config is set to.

Expected Results:  
Should scroll the number of lines specified by mousewheel.withnokey.numlines
when mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines is false.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

It would appear that all of the mousewheel.withnokey prefs got dropped from Firefox?

Comment 2

[Peter Fitzsimmons]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It would appear that all of the mousewheel.withnokey prefs got dropped from
Firefox?

I just tried it under Windows xp (firefox 1.0) and these settings (via
about:config) were not ignored, so it appears to be an os/2 (maybe other
platfroms too, but not windows) problem. [later: works fine under linux too]

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Hmm. I can't see how this could be:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/search?string=mousewheel.withnokey

Shows them referenced in two places - defaults being set, and modification in
preferences (not ffox preferences) - must be something strange going on here...

Comment 4

[Peter Fitzsimmons]

I just installed the latest Mozilla (full: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5;
en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041124) and the problem is there too.

Again, "withnokeys" are not working, "withaltkey" scrolls the way I want (3
lines at a time) - except I don't want to hold down the ALT key all day.

So this is more than a Firefox bug.

tia, pete.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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