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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <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 until |
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> > it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward |
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> > direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it might not |
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> > 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 moves |
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> > the "thumb" thingie a fixed amount which depends on where you click. The |
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> > worst part is that the application won't do anything else until the |
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> > scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall page can take a |
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> > 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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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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