295806 - middle-click with usb mouse doesn't work until mouse is moved

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[J Bedford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+

When middle-clicking a link using my usb mouse to open a new tab or
middle-clicking a tab to close it, the action won't happen until I move the
mouse (even just by 1 pixel).  The middle-button on my IBM thinkpad works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Middle-click a link or a tab using USB mouse
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens until the mouse is moved

Expected Results:  
Open link in new tab or close tab should happen immediately

IBM Thinkpad T40 using several different generic usb mice
Has worked before, not sure what changed

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050528
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052805

WFM

Can you try a build from the past 2 days, there were some middleclick mouse
problems around the 22nd/23rd on this month.

You should test the current nightly build before filling bugs incase its been fixed.

Comment 2

[J Bedford]

Can confirm that the same happens using a new profile on the zip build of
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050528
Firefox/1.0+

Just to emphasise, this happens when using the middle button of a usb mouse, but
not using the middle button of my laptop's built in trackpoint.  --J

Comment 3

[J Bedford]

Addition:
when I middle-click on an item in the bookmarks menu the menu vanishes and i
start strolling on the page (i.e. the 2-way nav cursor appears), this time
without having to move the mouse

Expected: opens the bookmark in a new tab

Actual: closes menu and starts scrolling

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

a response to middleclick happens at mouseup (release of the button), not any
mousemovement

Comment 5

[J Bedford]

on mouseup the usual dotted border is drawn around the link

NOTHING else happens until the mouse is moved, be it after 0.5 seconds or 50
seconds, regardless of which events are handled when

this is not resolved, can someone else confirm it?

further info, one mouse is an IBM 31P7405 with the correct drivers installed

Comment 6

[J Bedford]

right, turns out this was due to one of those "manufacturer's special actions
for mouse buttons" problems interfering with firefox.  I didn't realise that
this new mouse would end up with its own set of properties separate from the IBM
trackpoints properties.

changing the middle mouse button to act as a middle mouse button, rather than
proprietary scrolling function, fixed the problem.

sorry for the huge flurry of postings to this bug, I'll be more careful in future.

Have changed this to RESOLVED/INVALID, please change it to something else if
that's not the right category.