80340 - sometimes the spacebar can't be used for pagedown

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58250

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Raj Bhaskar]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050515

I usually use the spacebar to navigate down large pages of text, and there are
some cases in Mozilla where this doesn't work.  There doesn't seem to by any
consistant pattern, sometimes on the same page, it will work or will not work in
different browsing sessions, eg at http://www.theregister.co.uk
I've made sure that the window has focus, but this doesn't always work.

I've observed this problem with Mozilla 0.8, 0.8.1 and 0.9 on Windows 95 and Red
Hat Linux 6.2.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Comment 1

[Raj Bhaskar]

I forgot to add that when this happens, the up/down arrow keys also don't work.

Raj.

Comment 2

[basic]

maybe dup of bug 37638. Similar symtoms.

Comment 3

[Raj Bhaskar]

No, I had definitely given focus to the main window.

Comment 4

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58250 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.