302349 - Middle-Click on a link while scrolling is active opens the link instead of just deactivating scroll

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216899

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Joshua Gordon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When you hit a middle click on a scroll mouse, the double arrow icon appear
indicating that you are scrolling. When you release this "scroll mode" by
clicking the scroll wheel again, if for some reason you are over a link, it
opens up in a new tab (by default -- even though you can change this...)

This gets very irritating and the behavior I would expect is that the middle
click would ONLY release the scroll mode and you would have to click once more
on a link to open it in a new tab. These 2 events should not happen at the same
time...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Assuming you have a scroll mouse, middle click on a website to enter "scroll mode"
2. Middle click again to release scroll mode but position your mouse over a link


Actual Results:  
The link activates and opens a new tab AND you exit "scroll mode".

Expected Results:  
Only the scroll mode should have stopped -- the new link should not be opened.

Comment 1

[Brian Polidoro]

Confrimed with a nightly build.  As a side note this does not happen with the
autoscrolling provided by the All-In-One Gestures extension (0.16 and probably
earlier too).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072606

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

I'm pretty sure this is the expected behavior here. It works the same way when
you use left click to open a link. I don't see why you should have to click
again to dismiss the autoscroll if you want to open a link.

Comment 3

[Joshua Gordon]

I hear what you are saying... and there are pages where this isn't really an
issue because the links are spread out in a way that makes it easy to release
the scroll function without inadvertantly clicking a link...

But on other pages that are link heavy, this has become an annoyance because all
 I want to do is deactivate the scrolling WITHOUT clicking a link (and
subsequently opening a new tab) and with the behavior as is currently, it's very
difficult to do this.

At minimum, it would be great to have at least a checkbox setting in the
Preferences near the scrolling (or the tabs prefs), that says "IGNORE
middle-click links when auto-scrolling" or something like that... so that you
have a choice... 

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

should be fixed in FF2