452606 - Middle-clicking on scrollbar should start autoscroll even when autoscroll is disabled for middle-clicking elsewhere

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Muayyad alsadi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1

I have a good idea for better firefox UI

it's to make middle click assigned to autoscrolling only in the scrollbar
region
so that it won't interferes with what ever Linux users do with there middle
mouse button

most people are not aware that firefox do have autoscrolling
and even when they know about it, they will disable it back
because we need to copy and paste with middle mouse button
and we do other things with it

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue138#Firefox_Mouse_Woes

middle clicking the scrollbar is not strange it's there in other web browsers
like IE and opera

and to make Windows users happy this limiting the autoscrolling region should
be only defaults in linux

ie. instead of having autoscrolling on and off
we should have autoscrolling full or smart (or limited)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Hmm, doesn't middle-clicking on scrollbars usually do something else on Linux?  Like "scroll so that the scrollbar thumb is _here_?"

Comment 3

[Muayyad alsadi]

I did know before, but yes you are right
but that also work with CTRL+middle click on scroll bar

so you are suggesting having tree choices instead of autoscrolling on/off
1. full
2. smart
3. off

another suggestion is that **smart** autoscrolling should be activated by middle click on any non-assigned region like
1. scroll bar
2. non-text entry box (single or multitine) in the web page as long as
  2.1. no hyperlink is hovered if load link into a background tab is assign to middle click
  2.2. no text is selected if load selection url into a background tab is assign to middle click

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

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