281288 - 1. Uncontrolled, automatic scrolling of pages: 2. Getting to Bookmark without auto-scroll

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[skim72ces]

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

Two issues: 1.The spontaneous, difficult to control scrolling function of
Firefox makes getting to a particular address in the Bookmarks, or point on a
page a pain.  Sometimes, opening up Bookmarks and clicking on the first letter
of the item (e.g. "r" for Reference) gets me into the R's, but other times does
something entirely different.  Going down into the list itself and trying to get
down to that item gets the whole list scrolling, with the "circled arrow" icon
floating around in the middle of the field.  
	One has to click outside to stop it and then try again.  
	I would vote to eliminate that auto-scroll function and simple permit one to
work down themselves or to enhance the "first-letter" function to get there. 
Having to deal with the auto-scroll on any particular FireFox page is a drag.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click into a field such as bookmarks or other page - round icon appears and
scroll begins, up or down, depending on where the mouse is pointing.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Auto scrolling

Expected Results:  
Stayed still and let the mouse find it by using scroll-bar or such

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change