389355 - Double-clicking scrollbar on NYTimes article causes a dictionary-lookup popup window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190828

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

When scrolling through a New York Times article, a javascript window suddenly appears.

Steps:

1. Load URL (may need to login, create free login)
2. Click on scroll bar several times quickly to page through the article (move the scroll bar back to the beginning and repeat if needed)

Result: a window opens with the following URL

http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=ref&query=his%20district.%20For%20Eric%20Dondero,%20who%20plans&fw=3

This query appears to be formed based on random text within the article.

Tested with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072205 Minefield/3.0a7pre

Also occurs on Mac FF3 trunk.  Does not occur in FF 2.0.0.5 or in IE 6.

Comment 1

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

Reproduced on OS X 10.4.10:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072304 Minefield/3.0a7pre

Seems to occur after third click when clicking quickly.  Pausing slightly between clicks seems to reduce but not eliminate the problem.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

The nytimes site has a "feature" that double-clicking any word creates a dictionary popup.  As one of the many people who tends to double-clicks text randomly while reading it, I find this annoying.  This nytimes feature works in Firefox and presumably IE but not Safari or Opera.

It seems like that feature is getting triggered for "double-clicks" on the scrollbar, when you're just trying to scroll down by two screenfuls quickly.  

I'm guessing this is a bug in 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/js/common/screen/altClickToSearch.js
rather than a bug in Firefox.

Comment 3

[Matthew Cline]

Sounds like it might be a dup of Bug 190828