Scroll Wheel in Firefox

gilman824 · 07-17-2005, 07:10 PM

I'm using a mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel that can be clicked. In Mozilla Firefox when I click the scroll wheel, firefox goes back a page (the scroll wheel acts like the back button). I'm using gnome (debian), how can I change the function of clicking the scroll wheel?

kencaz · 07-17-2005, 09:42 PM

I have a Microsoft 2button with a clickable wheel as well, my problem is similar but when I click the wheel it tries to load whatever is in the mouse buffer (clipboard) and tries to open that as a web page. I guess I could change it but it does not really bother me...

I use Mozilla, however, it may be in the same place for FireFox...

Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Mouse Wheel

KC

racethesun · 07-17-2005, 09:44 PM

edit -> preferences -> turn autoscrolling on

gilman824 · 07-17-2005, 11:01 PM

Ah, thank you very much, turning autoscrolling on was the solution (under advanced in firefox there is nothing for mouse wheel). Saved me a lot of frustration.

mhallbiai · 07-17-2005, 11:31 PM

racethesun, thanks

i never thought it would be so simple

i use CLI to do everything except browse the web (mozilla/firefox) and watch videos (mplayer/xine) so i didnt bother with it for too long when digging through the firefox options

thanks again

gilman824 · 08-01-2005, 12:35 PM

i thought this problem was solved, but now i can click down on the scroll wheel and move it up and down to scroll, sometimes i can let go of the scroll wheel and nothing happens but sometimes it will also go back a page anyway.

racethesun · 08-01-2005, 01:02 PM

i noticed that too, but it only happened after i updated to 1.0.6, so i think its just a new bug.