295541 - auto scroll stays functional (not active) when focus changes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240363

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Hunter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.  It's kind of cool, but . . .

Lots of tabs open, push middle mouse button and turn on auto scroll.  Then,
switch to another tab, or even to another application.  At this point, I would
think that the auto scroll feature should be deactivated.  But if I click on the
tab in which I turned on the auto scroll feature, lo and behold, it's there and
functional!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a couple of tabs, one with more content than fits in one screenfull
2.  Turn on auto scroll feature in overflowing-content tab
3.  Switch tabs or switch applications.  Then switch back to the
overflowing-content tab by and indirect means: Alt+Tab or clicking on the tab
(not the body of the tab).
4.  Watch as the scrolling functionality is still there!

Actual Results:  
5a.  Look in amazement and play and be happy because you've found a feature
5b.  or be happy that you've discovered a bug that really doesn't matter.


Expected Results:  
Not sure.  But it seemed "unexpected."

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240363 ***