280405 - Scrolling goes weird when using scrollbar, middle button and middle scroll wheel at the same time

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tommie V-]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

It looks very weird when using the three scrolling ways at the same time:
MIddle mouse click + Srcoll bar + Middle rotation wheel on mouse = Weird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
CLick on the right scrollbar, holt the mouse button (left),
move mouse to middle (into the webpage, that is large so you can scroll a bit),
use your middle mouse button (click once),
and start moviong your mouse up and down, and also rotate your scroll wheel.
This will act pretty strange, and cause flashes of the website to move fast...
It looks messy.
Actual Results:  
Flashing parts of the webpage when you move the mouse and scroll wheel.

Expected Results:  
Make it not able to middle click the mouse button while using the scrollbar.

N/A

Comment 1

[Frank]

The jumpy scroll on middle mouse is always a problem on Physorg.com news stories.
Here, ignoring the site navigation on both sides, the regular layout is a bit of
bold text as an introduction, left or right a picture. 
Below that a Google ad in a scroll box and then another google ad in a grey box
that may also be a java display.
The text wraps below that.

Keeping press the middle mouse to get the arrows. Move the mouse to scroll the
text just a little faster than one can read. Sometimes it works perfectly first
time, then seems to bounce too and fro several times.

This effect only occurs as the cursor touches the google boxes. 
Work around is to keep the mouse in the text only. 
Firefox 1.0.3 on Xp Pentium 5
  

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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