322977 - scroll wheel causes erratic back-forward page navigation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When I scroll with my mouse wheel, the browser rapidly backs up/moves forward pages as if I am erratically pushing the Back/Forward buttons.  It may be related to the fact that I am using a Belkin KVM switch (F1DZ102T), although on my other box, Firefox 1.07 doesn't experience the problem.  I downloaded last night's version of Deer Park Alpha, and the problem was reproducible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Use a Belkin F1DZ102T KVM switch
2.  Switch back and forth between PC's once
3.  Roll the scroll wheel

Actual Results:  
Rapid erratic back/forward movement

Expected Results:  
Scroll

Help!  I'm not using any themes.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 207665 or maybe bug 251356?

Comment 2

[Chris]

Confirmed, I have the same issue.  I am not using a KVM switch.  I am using Deer Park on Gentoo Linux

Comment 3

[Groove Master Tronny a.k.a Shampoo]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> 
> When I scroll with my mouse wheel, the browser rapidly backs up/moves forward
> pages as if I am erratically pushing the Back/Forward buttons.  It may be
> related to the fact that I am using a Belkin KVM switch (F1DZ102T), although on
> my other box, Firefox 1.07 doesn't experience the problem.  I downloaded last
> night's version of Deer Park Alpha, and the problem was reproducible.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.  Use a Belkin F1DZ102T KVM switch
> 2.  Switch back and forth between PC's once
> 3.  Roll the scroll wheel
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Rapid erratic back/forward movement
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Scroll
> 
> Help!  I'm not using any themes.
> 

I have had the same problem and I was using the same setup except I had a wireless logitech mouse receiver pluged into the belkin KVM switch USING a USB to PS\2 adapter in the pin socket and my belkin switch is a F1DL102P model. I had adapters pluged in for both the Mouse and Keyboard because the wireless receiver was for USB. When I would switch the belkin from to and from the other computer it would freeze up the mouse and keyboard and i would have then plug in the receiver into the USB to get the computer to recognize them. I think this is a problem with the KVM switch and not the actual application. I "fixed" this by doing the following:
1: plug in the USB to PS/2 adapter labeled-keyboard- into the mouse PS/2 socket  and plug in you USB mouse (it just works and I don't know why.)
2: Use a regular PS/2 keyboard and plug it into the keyboard socket.

It works for me, I hope this helps some.        

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Andy]

I believe this issue has been fixed, because I can't duplicate the problem anymore.