90977 - Scrolling doesn't work in Mail/News with Synaptics Touchpad

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56892

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[David Coppit]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001071604

Dell laptops have a Synaptics touchpad. One feature of this touchpad is to 
scroll the display if the user runs his or her finger along the right or bottom 
edges.

Scrolling using this method work in the browser, but doesn't work in any of the 
Mozilla mail/news panes. Strangely, it *does* work in the Mail/News tool of 
Netscape 6.1.

Scrolling also works if I use my Intellimouse, which uses a different driver. 
Apparently, the intellimouse driver scrolls whichever pane is active, whereas 
the Synaptics driver scrolls the pane the cursor is over.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Buy a Synaptics touchpad. :)
2. Make sure you have "Virtual Scrolling of Active Window" enabled in the driver
2. Open up Mail/News with a scrollable message or message list
3. Put the cursor over the scrollable list, and try to scroll it using the 
touchpad

Actual Results:  No scrolling

Expected Results:  Scrolling

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20618 ***

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

Bug 56892 is specific to the touch pad, and it offers a fix for this (and the
reason why does it work in NS 6).

Comment 3

[:deanis74]

Reopening...

Comment 4

[:deanis74]

...to mark as a dupe of bug 56892, which offers a workaround.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56892 ***

Comment 5

[David Coppit]

Alfonso: thanks for the xref. Believe it or not, I *did* search for a duplicate
before I posted the bug. :(

Comment 6

[:deanis74]

verifying dupe based on reporter's comments