290361 - Screen becomes messy if middle click on top of a non-flash ad

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Yuchao719]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0.3  20050413

When middle clicking on top of or below an a non-flash or non-java ad, the
screen becomes messy. The whole site seems to vibrate up and down.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto a site with advertisements such as www.hardwareforums.com
2. Look at the sign that says "REGISTER FREE TO REMOVE SITE ADS!"
3. Middle click on top of or below that ad
4. Screen vibrates up and down! (kinda cool actually :) )
Actual Results:  
Screen vibrates up and down and you don't scroll to anywhere.

Expected Results:  
Move down or up according to the position of the mouse without vibrating.

This is not a crash, but I have found this bug in both Windows XP and Windows 98SE

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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