511023 - Setting up a Rudimentary Mouse Lab

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Servicedesk, task)

Description

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

After adding an acceleration scroll model to the Windows builds of Firefox (Bug 462809) a lot of users started to report that they were experiencing double acceleration, since their mouse driver was already providing its own acceleration model.  In an effort to detect if an acceleration model is already in place (bug 509651), we need to look at the events being reported by a wide variety of mice (and mouse drivers) currently on the market.

I'll be putting together a list of mice I think we should start out with testing, along with links to CDW for IT to purchase them.

Currently I already have these:

Microsoft Intellimouse optical
Microsoft wheel mouse optical
Microsoft Bluetooth notebook mouse 5000
Logitech M-UAE96
Apple mightmouse

After we have figured out everything we need to know about mouse events on Windows to resolve bug 509651 we should probably turn the inventory over to QA in case anyone else needs access to a variety of mice.

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Here is a list of popular mice currently on the market, with the mice above and similar mice filtered out (while the links are from CDW, I'm basing this on the sales rank at amazon.com)

Same inventory as a spreadsheet with type and rank: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tf7-Ncrbk2gr6uZ4Y2gFu6g&output=html

==Common==

Logitech VX Nano Wireless Laser Mouse
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1279069

Logitech MX Revolution Wireless Mouse
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1009097

Logitech G5 Laser Mouse for Gaming
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1202509

Logitech Notebook Optical Mouse Plus
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=595352

Logitech Trackman Marble - trackball
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1720829

Kensington Ergonomic Expert Mouse
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=499935

Microsoft 69K-00001 Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1138417

3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 3D motion controller
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1098858

Kensington Orbit Optical Trackball
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=449993

==Uncommon==

Additionally these three caught attention for their obscurity and novelty (although some are not available through CDW)

Logitech MX Air Rechargeable Wireless Air Mouse
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1275860

USB Optical Finger Mouse
http://www.amazon.com/HDE-USB-Optical-Finger-Mouse/dp/B000UVD8B2/ref=sr_1_77?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1250556941&sr=1-77

Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Laser Mouse 5600 DPI
http://www.amazon.com/Razer-Mamba-Wireless-Gaming-Laser/dp/B001WAKR3W/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1250557088&sr=1-31

I-Pen Digital Pen Writer Ipen Optical USB Mouse Input Device
http://www.amazon.com/I-Pen-Digital-Writer-Optical-Device/dp/B0000AC88K/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1250557088&sr=1-40

Comment 2

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Note that I updated the spreadsheet to mark a few more mice that we have access to around the office:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tf7-Ncrbk2gr6uZ4Y2gFu6g&output=html

Comment 3

[Sean Alamares]

Everything not marked as a "have" on the spreadsheet has been placed on order.

Comment 4

[Sean Alamares]

Dropped a bunch of these off at your desk.

Comment 5

[Sean Alamares]

Dropped yet more of these off at your desk. Can you go through what's been deployed and let me know what, if anything, you're still waiting on?

Comment 6

[Sean Alamares]

Deployed.