569291 - A folder flyout in Bookmarks menu will not scroll down using mouse wheel

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mozdoc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

The main Bookmarks menu list going beyond the edge of the screen will scroll up and down using the middle wheel of the mouse fine.  A folder within the Bookmarks menu that contains many bookmarks that goes off the bottom of the screen will not scroll down using the mouse wheel, but will scroll up using the mouse wheel.  Up and down arrows within the menu work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Can't reproduce.

Does it happen for you in new Firefox profile too?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Works for me - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Comment 3

[mozdoc]

Thank you for your help Firefoxer's!

I've been just putting up with this problem ever since its been mentioned but finally got around to fixing it.  I put WinXP Pro SP3 on my laptop and immediately upon completion of that put in Firefox 3.6.6 .  Importing some test bookmarks, the subfolders of the Bookmarks list scroll just fine up and down.

Proceeded to put in all of my software programs and somewhere in this task something breaks Firefox.  The main interface of Firefox works just fine as does the main area of the Bookmarks list.  Any subfolders that are in the list though will only scroll UP, never down.  The arrows present in the Bookmarks list as well as subfolders do still work as expected.

Came back to Bugzilla and followed the directive of creating a new profile, which I named "TestUser".  Firefox loaded its new user welcome and Bookmarks list, which I then imported my list of test bookmarks into it.  Scrolling function in the main list as well as subfolders is restored now.  Switching back to the other profile "default", scrolling function remains broken.  No idea why this is.

Either way, a workaround has been found.  Thank you.

--Mozdoc

Comment 4

[mozdoc]

Actually, I take half of what I said back in comment number three.

The profiles in Firefox have nothing to do with the issue at hand.  Its one of the addon's that I have running to modify Firefox's behavior, ChromEdit.

Prior versions of Firefox have had me putting this code into the userChrome.css file to remove the "Open All In Tabs" text at the bottom of Bookmarks subfolder menus.  I've never had a need for it so I removed it using this.

/* Remove "Open All In Tabs" links */
menuitem[label="Open All in Tabs"], menuseparator[builder="end"]{display:none!important;} 

Unfortunately, putting that code in, while it does what I want it to, the newer versions of Firefox seem to also interpret it as if the "Open All In Tabs" text isn't there, then the ability to use the mouse wheel to scroll down in the list shouldn't be there either.

I didn't suspect ChromEdit of any wrongdoing because this type of issue had never come up before.  Only while I was systematically putting my addon's back in did I notice that's when Firefox broke.

So this leads me to the question of is it possible to remove the "Open All In Tabs" part without sacrificing the ability to use the center scroll wheel to move up and down lists of Bookmarks?

--Mozdoc