472814 - autoscroll (middle click) - when enabled, using keyboard up and down should modify speed of autoscroll not try to move page up or down

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[henrikc79]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

autoscroll (middle click) - when enabled, using keyboard up and down should modify speed of autoscroll not try to move page up or down

This would be the correct functionality, since it doesn't make sense to move one step up while scrolling down.

This is also the default action in IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable autoscroll on a webpage (middle mouse click)
2. Press keyboard up / down keys

Actual Results:  
3. The autoscroll speed navigator does not jump accordingly, instead the webpage is scrolled up / down, but this effect is shortly cancelled out by autoscroll

Expected Results:  
3. The autoscroll speed navigator is changed according to the pressed key (up/down), to either increase, decrease or stop autoscrolling (while not disabling autoscroll, just change the speed we are moving through the page at)

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Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Does IE also adjust the mouse position when you press the keyboard arrow?

Comment 2

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Oh yeah, it does. Nice.

Comment 3

[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.

Comment 4

[MarjaE]

I use my own scrolling software, but some pages are only scrollable with page up or page down (e.g. Google Maps or Orbis-Gis interpret attempts to scroll as commands to zoom), and others are only scrollble with scrolling tools (e.g. the Internet Archive interprets attempts to page down as commands to flip pages).

So users need to be able to pick whichever options works on each page. Enabling Autoscroll shouldn't disable Page Down, and vice-versa.