I have a big pet peeve.

A lot of web pages nowadays have drop-down menus from which you can select a value, and a JavaScript automatically will submit your selection. It’s usually used for navigation. My problem is that when you’ve clicked on one of these menus, it remains selected after the page is reposted. My other problem is that the mouse’s scroll wheel will scroll through values in a pull-down menu when it’s selected.

This means that if you try to use your mouse’s scroll wheel to scroll the page after it’s been loaded, without thinking to click out of the selected field, you’ll select a new value and reload the page inadvertently, with the wrong value selected. Usually this means that you’ll be looking at information you didn’t ask for.

This is highly irritating, and I can’t find any settings that will disable this “feature”. Hey Microsoft: no one uses the scroll wheel to select values from a pull-down menu, because you can’t see what the next value is. I can also think of no reason why anyone would need that field selected after the page has reloaded.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.