289215 - scrolling behaviour is wonky with new touchpad on powerbook

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282140

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Justin Ryan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

The new Apple Powerbook have a feature in the touchpad which allows it to behave
like a scrollwheel when two fingers are used instead of one.  This works
correctly in Camino, but not in Mozilla or Firefox - they both respond to it,
but want to use slight sideways movement or tapping of the pad as back/forward
actions.  it's very neurotic.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get ahold of a recent powerbook (12" 1.5ghz, 15"/17" 1.67ghz) with scrolling
touchpad feature
2.load up any version of mozilla or firefox that you like
3.try to use the scrolling touchpad feature
4. fire up safari or camino and try the same for an example of proper behaviour
Actual Results:  
the page jumps around all crazily and goes back and forth through history instead

Expected Results:  
scrolled smoothly.

Sometimes this is a cause of loss of form data, and it just generally disallows
natural use of a feature which isn't broken in any other applications I've tested.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282140 ***