User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Any time the mouse pointer lands on a hyperlink, either after scrolling the document with the mouse wheel or a directional key, or after switching to another tab, the link location of the hyperlink is not shown in the status bar, nor does the mouse pointer change into a hand. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Mozilla. 2. Open a location. 3. Scroll the document with the mouse wheel or a directional key, such as [Home], [End], [Up], [Down], [Page Up] or [Page Down], so that the mouse pointer lands on a hyperlink afterwards. Alternatively, open another tab with [Ctrl]+[T] and switch to the previous tab with either [Ctrl]+[Page Up] or [Ctrl]+[Page Down] so that the mouse pointer lands on a hyperlink afterwards. Actual Results: The link location of the hyperlink that the mouse pointer lands on is not shown in the status bar, nor does the mouse pointer change into a hand. Expected Results: The link location of the hyperlink that the mouse pointer lands on should be shown in the status bar and the mouse pointer should change into a hand. I think that there are a few rare exceptions where the link location *is* shown and the mouse pointer *does* change, though after a few seconds only (as opposed to immediately), but I haven't been able to consistently reproduce this. The general rule is that it currently doesn't work.

I can reproduce the reported behavior, however i'm not sure that this is a problem with mozilla per-se, but rather that mouse events (focus in) are not delivered when scrolling either with the mouse or arrow/page up/down keys. Either that, or they are being masked out due the new type-ahead link find feature in mozilla. I didn't see a preference to turn off type-ahead link finding in the preferences to prove/disprove this theory however.

This is a duplicate of a fairly old bug...

Looks like bug 50511 is the original. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50511 ***