395830 - Config option to disable Page scrolling when scrolling an inner component on the page

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Karmadude]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

I often find it annoying that the page starts to scroll up or down whenever scrolling an inner component reaches the end. For example: if there is a selection box on the page, and if the user scrolls within the selection box, and reaches the end of the scrolling region, the whole page starts to scroll. 

This is not what the user normally expects, and is visually annoying. An option to  turn off page scrolling when an inner component is being scrolled is what this enhancement request is asking for.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In what way do you scroll (mouse, autoscroll, keyboard) and can you give a URL where the problem happens?

Comment 2

[Karmadude]

It's not really a problem, just a different behavior for scrolling. I use both mouse and keyboard for scrolling. With keyboard the behavior is correct, but not with the mouse. For example you can take a look at http://scroller.counterjumper.com/

In the first box ( top left ), if you scroll using the keyboard, you will see that when you get to the bottom of the box content, the scrolling stops. Now if you move your mouse pointer to inside the box, and scroll with the mouse, you will notice that when you hit the end of the box scroll, the page starts to scroll.

That's the behavior which is unexpected, and not consistent with keyboard scroll. Users like me prefer the keyboard scroll behavior, where the page does not start to scroll on me when I just want to scroll within the inner box using a mouse.

I hope that explains the enhancement request better.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see this bug indeed with Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Windows XP, but it is fixed in the latest trunk build. You can try it out: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
So this bug will not be present anymore in Firefox 3.0.
Resolving WORKSFORME. Please reopen if you still can reproduce the problem with Minefield, or if you can find the duplicate that fixed this issue.

Comment 4

[Karmadude]

Works pretty good in Gran Paradiso Alpha 8. But there is a bug in the feature. Let see if I can help you reproduce it

Step 1: go to http://scroller.counterjumper.com/
Step 2: Point your mouse in the top left scroll box
Step 3: Scroll with mouse wheel all the way to the bottom of that box
Step 4: Now point your mouse in the green heading box with title, "File: liststyle.css"
Step 5: Scroll with mouse wheel while mouse pointer is inside green box, and you should see the page starting to scroll

Another way you might be able to reproduce this issue is keep the mouse still within the top left most as you scroll, and when you hit the bottom, move mouse within the box and scroll again. 

I will see if I can locate the duplicate of this bug.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.