Closed Bug 69410 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

"Focus Follows Mouse" option makes Mozilla nearly unusable

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(Core :: XUL, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 50798

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(Reporter: gordo, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID:    2001021508

Platforms Tested: Linux and Windows

Trying access menus and right-click options with "Focus Follows Mouse"
option set makes grabbing the menus almost impossible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
On Linux, use Gnome,KDE,etc. option, equivalent to "Focus Follows Mouse," while
on Windows, try using TweakUI, which has the "X-mouse" option.

1. Start Mozilla
2. Go to any webpage and try to use the right click option or simply
   try to click on the various browser menus, like File, Edit, etc.

3. The menu will open but moving the cursor successfully over to the
   menu requires that the button remain pressed at all times. While
   this is semi-feasible/mostly annoying, it works with the built-in
   Mozilla menus. It becomes a tortuous game for using the right-click
   option on a webpage proper. In order to grab that "Right-Click"
   menu, it is necessary it right-click and then very rapidly slide the
   mouse down and to the right, otherwise the menu would disappear
   somewhere between that one pixel seperating the mouse cursor and the
   actual menu. 


Actual Results:  One of two things would have happend: if I was actually able to
grab that right-click menu, I earned a cookie. If I missed (10x in a row,
for example), I would need to buy a new mouse from beating the thing to
death.

Expected Results:  IMHO, Mozilla should make all menus sticky, (Like MSIE), so
that us "Focus Follows Mouse" people don't unnecessarily destroy their 
peripherals.

Obviously, the workaround is to turn off "Focus Follows Mouse," but 
please, this is a real usability issue.
a part of this is a dupe of bug 50798
(context menus are unuseable when using x-mouse)
odd, i use xmouse [w2k] and don't have these problems.
Assignee: asa → ben
URL: N/A
Component: Browser-General → XP Apps: GUI Features
QA Contact: doronr → sairuh
no problems for me (linux/2001021821, enlightenment/focus-follows-pointer).
earlier builds worked well, too.
should this go to xp toolkit, or event handling...?
Assignee: ben → trudelle
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → XP Toolkit/Widgets
QA Contact: sairuh → jrgm
win2k service pack one
logitech 900b99 mouse driver / mouseman/+
tweakui for win2k w/ x-mouse activated
mozilla .8

redhat 7.0 (non-respin)
gnome-libs 1.2.4-11
sawfish 0.30.3-10
gpm 1.19.3
last tested mozilla .6

i hope this is helpful. please let me know if i may be of any further 
assistance.
->pinkerton
Assignee: trudelle → pinkerton
this is a dupe of another bug that someone else has.
On windows, this is bug 50798, as Matti noted earlier.

On linux, I can't reproduce this bug (rh6.1, gnome, enlightenment). 
i finally tested mozilla .8 on linux and it works, well.
please close defect for linux.
Okay, so if this bug is only for windows now, then it is a dup of bug 50798.
Possible fix soon. Thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50798 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified, per gordo's comment on linux, and bug 50798 is well-known on win32.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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