418589 - autoscroll not turned off by middle-click

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020513 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020513 Firefox/3.0b3

With autoscroll enabled, middle-clicking activates autoscroll as expected. Under Firefox 2, middle-clicking a second time would then deactivate it (as would left or right-clicking).

Under Firefox 3, middle-clicking a second time has no effect. Autoscroll remains enabled until the left or right mouse buttons are used. As this is contrary to the behavior of most applications, I can only assume it is a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on autoscroll option
2. Middle-click
3. Middle-click again
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Autoscroll should deactivate with the second click.

Comment 1

[Jason Brown]

This is very annoying. I've used the autoscroll feature for so many years that the old behaviour is ingrained. When reading a page, I'll rest my index finger on the mouse wheel, click, scroll through the page, click again and then move the mouse to a link or button on the page- only the link will scroll away, because autoscroll never deactivated. Ugh.

Comment 2

[Jason Brown]

Oops. Just discovered this is actually a bug in the Mouse Gestures Redox extension.