Firefox pauses when scrolling long distances

Charred · 07-15-2005, 12:42 PM

I've encountered a bit of a curiosity. Whenever I'm using my scroll wheel over longish postings, especially postings with largish code or quite fields, it will occasionally stop, requiring me to click on the current page before I can resume scrolling. It's almost as if focus has been stolen by another browser tab or window, although I have no other windows open. I first noticed it in XFCE and Blackbox, but it's most noticeable in KDE. I thought I found one other mention of this, but that posting is apparently about default 3rd button behavior. Any thoughts?

keefaz · 07-15-2005, 12:54 PM

Did you test wheel scrolling with another web browser ?

phil.d.g · 07-15-2005, 12:55 PM

I have noticed it aswell, it occurs when the mouse goes over an iframe, or a <code> block, or any element that has scrolling enabled

Charred · 07-15-2005, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by keefaz
Did you test wheel scrolling with another web browser ?

Yes I have, it works fine with Konqueror and Netscape!

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Originally posted by phil.d.gI have noticed it aswell, it occurs when the mouse goes over an iframe, or a <code> block, or any element that has scrolling enabled

Looks as if there is some confusion as to which part of the window has the focus.

phil.d.g · 07-15-2005, 02:01 PM

yeah, its done it for as long as I can remember on various versions for windows and linux

Charred · 07-15-2005, 02:04 PM

So it's an "undocumented feature," rather than a bug.