318097 - Scrolling/highlighting blocking operations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301399

(Camino Graveyard :: Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[Matthew Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1

When the primary button is held down over the central text body of the website mentioned and then moved off the browsing area, the site continues scrolling, highlighting the text as it goes, and all other operations are blocked.  There is no way of stopping the scrolling and highlighting, which may happen very slowly.  It is possible to stop it only by right-clicking (or Ctrl-clicking) on the Camino dock icon and selecting "Quit", which then causes the scroll to speed up; one can then select Cancel when the Quit dialog box appears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the website mentioned (others may show the same effect)
2. Page down a few pages
3. Hold the (primary) mouse button down over the main blog text area
4. Move the pointer up until it is outside the browser area
5. Release the button
Actual Results:  
The page continued scrolling slowly upwards, highlighting all the text as it went, blocking all other operations.

Expected Results:  
It should have continued scrolling upwards, highlighting as it went, without blocking other operations, and the software should allow some means of stopping the scroll.

I have marked it as critical because some users may force-quit the applicaiton without knowing of the "Quit" method of stopping the scroll, and thus lose data they have entered in another tab.  It may also cause data loss if an upload or download is in progress or another tab is involved in playing a sound file (not tested).

Comment 1

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301399 ***