343597 - tab scrolling: drag and drop of tabs will scroll faster if you the mouse around over the autorepeatbutton

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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tab scrolling:  drag and drop of tabs will scroll faster if you the mouse around over the autorepeatbutton

Martijn writes in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox

> There is a patch in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240709 that accomplishes
> the same in a more generic way (for all scrollboxes).
> There is a small difference in behavior between your patch and the
> patch in bug 240709, btw.
> With your patch, when you keep moving (while dragging over the
> autorepeatbutton) over the autorepeatbutton, the scrolling goes
> faster, with the patch in bug 240709, it keeps scrolling at a constant
> speed (at least that's how it was when I last checked this, iirc).

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Except we don't use autorepeat buttons in the clicktoscroll binding.

We can do something very similar in the tabbrowser dragover listener though.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

> Except we don't use autorepeat buttons in the clicktoscroll binding.

this is my error, not martijn's (who sent this email before we made that change).

> We can do something very similar in the tabbrowser dragover listener though.

I'll investigate for ff2b2.

Comment 3

[John Mellor (Jomel)]

I'm sure I've noticed similar behaviour in other Windows programs, and I've come to consider this as a feature where if it's not scrolling fast enough, you can wiggle the mouse to speed it up. At any rate I can't see how it does any harm...

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the bug spam, re-assigning bugs back to default owner if I'm not working actively on them.

Comment 5

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm sure I've noticed similar behaviour in other Windows programs, and I've
> come to consider this as a feature where if it's not scrolling fast enough, you
> can wiggle the mouse to speed it up. At any rate I can't see how it does any
> harm...

I agree with Jomel. Shall we WONTFIX or INVALID this?

Comment 6

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Yeah the new tab drag-and-drop has better visual feedback making the behavior easier to understand