642454 - not able to use scrolling from touchpad,on some websites this one included,

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[leichelkraut3]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Not able to use the two finger scrolling feature of the touchpad on my laptop. The cursor correctly changes but there is not scroll. This feature works with firefox 3.6. It also works correctly whenever a pdf is loaded from website.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to a website
2.Try to use the two finger scroll on the touchpad
3.
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Scrolling

Comment 1

[Olle Sundblad]

I have had the same problem since upgrading to FF4. Yesterday I noticed that the scrolling stops working if any open tab has application context. 

After some more investigation I found out that the application "eats" the scrolling events thus the scroll events happen in the application.

I verified this by:
1 open a webpage that scroll works on 
2 open a pdf (that is large enough to need scrolling) in second tab
3 switch to the first tab and try to scroll down
4 switch to second tab and voila the pdf has scrolled down

Hope this bug can be fixed soon, it is really annoying.

Comment 2

[eyal gruss]

comment 1 is bug 273456

Comment 3

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

You could be seeing bug 605357 or bug 622410.

Comment 4

[Ibrahim Jadoon]

@Timothy

This is a separate issue than those bugs. I can scroll fine in Firefox at ANY TIME except when a PDF is opened in a tab. My keyboard shortcuts (page down, etc.) work perfectly: they only work on the activated tab I am viewing.

Different problem.