552154 - Keyboard scrolling scrolls down, sticks on any entry box (e.g., search box), then cannot scroll up, on any Web page.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Wendy Bolt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Keyboard scrolling scrolls down, sticks on any entry box (e.g., search box), then cannot scroll up, on any Web page. Have to use scroll buttons on side to scroll at all, or click on the page to reactivate keyboard scrolling. This does not always work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any Web page.
2. Scroll down, then up.
3. It will stick.
Actual Results:  
Keyboard scrolling sticks.

Expected Results:  
It should scroll smoothly without any sticks, jams or stops, using the keyboard. I have an iMac and have to use the fn key and up or down arrows in order to scroll. This in itself is annoying as no other Mac had this problem. On older Macs, using up and down arrows alone was sufficient for smooth and complete scrolling.

Comment 1

[jabriel.yareth]

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.

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.

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop QA]

Marking this as Resolved > WFM since I cannot reproduce the issue, the last activity on this bug was 12 years ago and it might not be relevant anymore. Feel free to re-open if the issue is still reproducible on your end in the latest FF versions.