318242 - No more keyboard scrolling through page-up/page-down/space

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194937

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Erwan David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

since upgrade to 1.5 I have no more keyboard scrolling of the page, neither page-up, page-down nor space do anything.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[mr tired]

I am working with an installation of 1.5. I am no longer able to navigate with the space bar. Earlier the spacebar used to enable page-down scrolling for me. The pagedown key still works, but the space bar doesn't.

I have noticed this behavior after installing NOScript and FasterFox extensions.
I am using Windows XP. Does this have anything to do with any extension?

Help.
Mr Tired

Comment 2

[Erwan David]

I tried in safe mode (so no extension, default theme) before reporting the bug. I'll try today on linux, and win2000 to see if it is a mac only problem for me.

Comment 3

[Erwan David]

On linux, space does not work any more, it works on win 2000.
On both page up/down works.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Maybe you have caret navigation on? It's toggled with the F7 key or somewhere in Tools - > Options -> Advanced -> General -> Allow text to be selected ...

Comment 5

[kosmonaut]

I had this same problem in 1.5.0.1 on OSX Tiger, and it frustrated me so much that I switched back to 1.0.7, and NOW I am having this problem in 1.0.7 if I click on anything on a page.

Comment 6

[Robin Grindley]

After my auto-upgrade to FF 1.5.0.3 page up/down stopped working. I turned off the flag as suggested in Comment 4, and now it is working fine. Don't know how the flag got turned on (or maybe the behaviour/interpretation of the flag changed in 1.5.0.3?). 

For the record, my config is: 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Comment 7

[ErikThread]

(In reply to comment #6)
> After my auto-upgrade to FF 1.5.0.3 page up/down stopped working. I turned off
> the flag as suggested in Comment 4, and now it is working fine. Don't know how
> the flag got turned on (or maybe the behaviour/interpretation of the flag
> changed in 1.5.0.3?). 
> 
> For the record, my config is: 
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426
> Firefox/1.5.0.3
>

Turning off the flag (cf. comment 4) returned the functionality of my "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys, too. Mac 10.3.8, Firefox 1.5.0.4,  Firefox/Preferences/Advanced/General-Accessibility (uncheck "Allow text to be selected with the keyboard")

Comment 8

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194937 ***