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Alan McKinnon 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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>>>> Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it |
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>>> starts |
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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 the |
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>>>> downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it |
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>>>> might not mean anything. |
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>>>> What's wrong about this is that a single click should not do this, and |
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>>> does |
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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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>>>> 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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>>>> Am I the only one seeing this? |
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>>> I don't see that. What settings do you have for scrolling? |
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>>> Firefox config dialog -> Advanced -> General |
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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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>> 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 are |
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> related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video system |
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If that's the case, I have a Nvidia card and use the Nvidia drivers. |
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Someone seeing this have something different? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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