Firefox pauses when scrolling long distances
 

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?

Just with firefox ?
 

Did you test wheel scrolling with another web browser ?

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

Re: Just with firefox ?
 

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

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

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

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