Yes, setting "new_buffer_position = buffer_position_after" also wreaks
havoc with the mouse-wheel-scrolling.

XULRunner reports as 10.0 (but I'm actually running through the firefox
--app method, if that makes any difference)
OS is Linux

On 31 January 2012 20:59, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is not the openers, but the use of ordinals to change the display order
> of the tabs from their literal order within the DOM tree.  You should be
> able to verify this with an experiment like the following:
>
>    new_buffer_position = buffer_order_after;
>
> What version of XULRunner are we talking about, and on what OS?
>
> --John
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Benjamin Slade wrote:
>    Ok, I can confirm that this is related to
> "new_buffer_with_opener_position =
>    buffer_position_end;". When I set "new_buffer_with_opener_position =
>    buffer_position_end;", then the mouse-scrolling with respect to tabs is
> the old
>    behaviour (i.e. works as expected).
>
>    Interestingly, the problem seems to be specific to buffers with
> openers. As
>    long as ever buffer I create has no "opener" then the mouse-scrolling
> works
>    fine. As soon as I open a buffer "with an opener" then the
> mouse-scrolling
>    becomes weird. (When the "buffer with an opener" buffer itself is
> active, no
>    mouse-wheel scrolling is possible; when other buffers are active, then
> the
>    "buffer with an opener" buffer seems to act as a "block" beyond which I
> can't
>    mouse-wheel-scroll.)
>
>    On 31 January 2012 14:00, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>        Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:53 -0500
>        From: "John J. Foerch" <[email protected]>
>        To: Benjamin Slade <[email protected]>
>        Cc: [email protected]
>        Subject: Re: [Conkeror] buffer ordering, scroll wheel in tabs
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>        On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:55:44AM -0600, Benjamin Slade wrote:
>        > Hi John,
>        >
>        > I'm not sure how it's related to buffer-ordering, but this
> behaviour
>        > started exactly after the buffer-ordering update. Maybe there's
>        > something else which was updated at the same time?
>
>        If it is related, it is a Mozilla bug, not a Conkeror bug.  Tab
> order is
>        determined by the XUL attribute "ordinal" on each tab.  So the
> question
>        is, is scrollwheel scrolling broken when ordinal is in use?  There
> would
>        have to be some mighty bad programming involved for these two
> subsystems
>        to care about each other, and since it's Mozilla we're talking
> about, I
>        admit that I cannot wholely discount the possibility; it just seems
>        unlikely.
>
>        If you set 'new_buffer_with_opener_position = buffer_position_end;'
> in
>        your rc, your setup would be equivalent to the old buffer ordering,
> and in
>        theory, that would make the problem with the scrollwheel go away,
> as long
>        as you didn't move any buffers.  A worthwhile test.
>
>        Someone with the means to test this would need to make a minimal
> test case
>        in order to go further.
>
>        --
>        John Foerch
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