331373 - Cannot navigate down a page with spacebar after I click on links on that page.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[kosmonaut]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.7

In 1.0.7, if I click on anything on a page - either direct click, ctrl-click, or command-click (open link in new tab), I can't use Spacebar to scroll down on the originating page anymore and have to refresh the page.  This just started happening - I upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.5.0.1 yesterday, and did not like 1.5.0.1, so I reinstalled 1.0.7, and now it has this scrolling bug that it did not have before.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit page
2. Click new links on page or ctrl-click any area of page (image, etc)
3. Can no longer scroll down with spacebar.

Actual Results:  
Cannot navigate the page with the keyboard anymore, and have to refresh the page in order to do so.

Expected Results:  
I should be able to navigate the page with keyboard without any problems.

I was using 1.0.7 without this issue until yesterday.  I decided to upgrade to 1.5.0.1 and did not like it (too buggy) and uninstalled it, and reinstalled 1.0.7, which now has this new bug.

Comment 1

[kosmonaut]

Fixed it.  It was not a bug but something in Firefox Preferences.

Preferences > Accessibillity > UNCHECK "Move system caret ..."