528821 - Scroll button disables scrolling using middle mouse button and keyboard

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[fawer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The scrolling symbol that appears when you click the middle mouse button disables scrolling by rolling the wheel over that specific region. It disables scrolling using the keyboard over all regions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the middle mouse button.
2. Move the mouse over the the symbol that appears.
3. Try to scroll up and down by rolling your middle mouse button.
4. Try to scroll up and down using the arrow keys and spacebar (this step is not affected by the position of the cursor).
Actual Results:  
No scrolling will occur.

Expected Results:  
Scrolling should occur in steps 3 and 4.

Comment 1

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

I can reproduce but I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour.

Comment 2

[fawer]

I can't roll the middle wheel to scroll in approximately the red region here:

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1696/scrollz.png

Comment 3

[fawer]

Alright, Minefield tried to patch this issue. Now rolling the middle mouse after you've clicked the middle mouse button exits the scroll functionality. However, this behavior is inconsistent because rolling the middle mouse over the icon doesn't do anything.

Comment 4

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it, and I will be identifying the people who broke it, like Asif Youssuff, personally, until it is identified as the bug that it is.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.

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