471824 - 3fsUP and 3fsDOWN gesture scrolling fails with wrong focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 461500

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The two finger scrolling up and down work regardless of focus (you can still scroll the page even if the Find Toolbar has focus or some other app has focus) but the three finger scrolling for top and bottom of page only works if the page has the focus and fails if any other browser element or even form controls in a page have the focus. 

This inconsistency is really really irritating. (BTW, the 3fsUP and 3fsDOWN rocks so hard I can't imagine how I survived before it.) 

Steps to reproduce on latest trunk build: 
1. in this bug report, put the focus in the "whiteboard" text field. 
2. try to 3fsUP or 3fsDOWN
3. repeat with 2fsUP and 2fsDOWN

You can reproduce by putting focus anywhere but the page itself and see this problem. 

There's also a small inconsistency in multi-line text areas that I think is related or possibly the same problem. Two finger scrolling applies to a focused text area only if the pointer is over the text area, otherwise it applies to the full document. Three finger scrolling applies to the focused text area regardless of the location of the pointer.