784693 - page up & down not working on zdnet pages, also not when clicking in the scroll bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[J Chris VanTonder]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to move up and down on zdnet.com pages using page up and page down buttons and by clicking im the vertical scrollbar



Actual results:

Page moves only 2 lines at a time up or down
Problem has been around for the last few versions already. Don't know exatly when it started
Happened on all the zdnet us pages I tried to read the last few weeks, today on http://www.zdnet.com/rethinking-the-viability-of-the-windows-8-tablet-7000002967/


Expected results:

Page should move up or down approx. the height of the display window on every button push or scrollbar click

Problem does not occur on IE 9 or Chrome

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

No Issue over here testing

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 ID:20120713134347

and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 ID:20120824101755

Is your Issue reproducible without Extensions in Safe-Mode and/or using a new Profile?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile

Comment 2

[J Chris VanTonder]

Issue was reproduced running Firefox without Extensions in Safe-Mode.

Resetting Firefox removed the issue. (I wish I could establish what caused the issue)

The bug may be closed.

Thank you for the hints on how to resolve the issue.

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Thanks for reporting back!