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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > > > It's weird. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it |
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> > > |
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> > > starts |
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> > > |
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> > > > heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so |
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> > > > until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in |
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> the |
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> > > > downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so |
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> it |
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> > > > might not mean anything. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > What's wrong about this is that a single click should not do this, |
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> and |
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> > > |
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> > > does |
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> > > |
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> > > > not do this, on any other scrollbar on my machine. A single click |
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> > > > moves the "thumb" thingie a fixed amount which depends on where you |
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> > > > click. The worst part is that the application won't do anything else |
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> > > > until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall |
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> > > > page can take a couple of minutes. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as |
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> > > > expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Am I the only one seeing this? |
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> > > |
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> > > I don't see that. What settings do you have for scrolling? |
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> > > |
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> > > Firefox config dialog -> Advanced -> General |
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> > |
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> > Firefox-3.6.3 -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General checked: - |
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> > Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages |
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> > - Use autoscrolling |
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> > - Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup |
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> > |
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> > I guess both of the first two are suspects, but AFAICR I've never touched |
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> > these. |
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> My setup is similar, so I don't know where to go from here :-) |
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> And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things |
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> are |
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> related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video |
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> system |
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> Maybe. It's also possible I'm seeing it when working with email. I do |
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that in |
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several ways, though, and I'll have to figure out which combination(s) |
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actually |
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give me trouble. Then I guess it will be bug-writing time. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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