From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010125 BuildID: 2001012504 Sometimes, text input fields on web pages behave very very strangely. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a web page with text input fields, e.g. Bugzilla helper. 2. Type into the text input fields. Use the space key and cursor left/right, home/end. Actual Results: 1. Pressing space scrolls the page 1 page down (the space is entered nonetheless). 2. The mouse wheel doesn't work any more. 3. Cursor right/left and home/end keys don't work any more. 4. The mouse works ok, though. Selecting text and setting the cursor position is no problem. Expected Results: The page shouldn't be scrolled on pressing the space key. Cursor left/right and home/end should work as usual. This happens really seldomly. Before it happened today, I had seen this bug 3 months ago. But if it happens, all the described problems occur. Loading another page fixes the problem.

I have also seen this several times in the last weeks with different builds on NT4 when adding a comment to Bugzilla. I don't know what triggers this, but if it happens you have to type on blindly because the page scrolls down with each space entered. And the page flickers wildly because of all the scrolling. I don't consider this a minor failure (this is ugly!), so I'm increasing the severity. It seams that something causes the keyboard events go both to the form textarea and to the whole window. This isn't a problem with the normal keys, but the space bar scrolls down, backspace scrolls up etc. I'm not sure what the right component is, trying form submission now.

i am pretty sure this is reported, just can't find it. over to event handling though, this has nothing to do with form submission (if you want the textareas, you should use the "html element" component btw)

how about bug 60584? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60584 ***

Why is this a dupe of bug 60584? Bug 60584 has nothing to do with text input fields. The problem with cursor right/left is not listed there, either. In addition, I can not remember touching the page up/down keys before the problem occured. Reopening bug.

I think this is a dup of bug 5419.

djk - nice catch, dupe *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5419 ***

vrfy dup

Wait, this bug says "Text scrolls 1 page down" (which is also what bug 26882 says) But bug 5419 says "Tape a space in the field. Suddenly browser will scroll down to the very bottom of the page." Are we sure this is the same thing? If anything, this bug should be dupe of bug 26882.

Yes, looks more like bug 26882. Yet, this bug should not be duped but be marked dependent on bug 26882 as this bug includes the problems with cursor keys and home/end keys. Any opinions?

Bug 5419 was closed at 1999-05-11 and reopened one and a half year later at 2000-11-09. Maybe it shouldn't have been reopened since it's a different bug as Moses pointed out. I'm thinking now that the best would be to mark bug 5419 and this bug both as a duplicate of bug 26882. Reopening.

oh well, dupe of 26882 then. both are probably the same issue... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26882 ***

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

QA contact updated