309009 - Shift+pageUp does not select a page of text prior to the cursor and shift+page down does not select page of text after the cursor

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Jon Avila]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050917 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050917 Firefox/1.4

Shift+page up /shift+page down do not work in f7 keyboard selection mode

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put cursor on some static text
2. Press shift+page down
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Text should be selected after the cursor for one page/screen worth

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Reproducible with Mozilla 1.8b1 and SeaMonkey 1.0a.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060206 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006020614

Confirmed
New

I have no idea whenever this regressed (a long time ago)

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have no idea whenever this regressed (a long time ago)

This bug is reproducible with Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla 1.5, maybe this has never worked?

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I have no idea whenever this regressed (a long time ago)
> 
> This bug is reproducible with Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla 1.5, maybe this has never
> worked?
> 

It regressed between 2002 (when it was fixed during the summer) and 2004.

Comment 5

[Brian Polidoro]

This also affects the source viewer.  It's a hassle when you want to select a very large chunk of source code and you have to wait while holding shift-down arrow or press it over and over.  And it's harder to tell when you have enough source selected while it's scrolling than when you go down a page at a time. 

Comment 6

[Brian Polidoro]

This should also work outside of caret browsing mode because after left clicking in some text using shift plus an arrow key does select text even without a caret.  So I'm adjusting the summary.  

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This seems to work fine for me on the latest nightly build on Windows and Linux but not on Mac.